# Attention authors, writers, and journalists: **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 7, 2014, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-authors-writers-and-journalists/680740 "2014-02-07T08:02:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-authors-writers-and-journalists/680740/21 "2014-02-09T17:33:47Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > I can only chuckle when some junior reporter writes about a grizzly murder scene. Yes, I would hate to bare witness to that. Unless I were at a nudist camp. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-authors-writers-and-journalists/680740/22 "2014-02-09T21:18:22Z")
> [@j666](#): > > Oddly, I only see and hear the last example, “Between you and I”, and even the best commentators might slip up on that one. Yes, I hear it a lot, too. In linguistics we call it _hypercorrection_, and it comes from parents, English teachers, etc. harping on children not to say, “Me and so-and-so,” to the point where they use _I_ even when it’s not correct. However, that’s a question of (normally spoken) grammar, and this OP is about spelling, so it’s entirely a separate thing and really belongs in a different thread. ---
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-authors-writers-and-journalists/680740/23 "2014-02-09T22:45:46Z")
So you guys read the Daily Mail, too ;-). They regularly test my metal, with most of the aforementioned. ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-authors-writers-and-journalists/680740/24 "2014-02-09T22:54:31Z")
> [@brujaja](#): > > That is all. I _knew_ that wasn’t all. Thanks, everyone, for making me feel less alone. ---
**Author:** ![tapu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@tapu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapu)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-authors-writers-and-journalists/680740/25 "2014-02-09T23:01:29Z")
As an editor, I have blanched at nearly all of these at one time or another. “Grizzly Murder” et al has always hit me hardest. Sometimes I see the occasional oner, as in “She wore a diamond neckless” that puts me in fits. I should be writing them all down… ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2014, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-authors-writers-and-journalists/680740/26 "2014-02-10T06:30:21Z")
I’ve sometimes seen “reckless” (as in reckless driving) misspelled as “wreckless.” That’s just wackbards. Reckless driving is wreckful, much to be avoided. Wreckless driving is reckful, I guess. Sorry, I just couldn’t wresist throwing that in. ---
**Author:** ![Obnoxious\_Hood\_Ornament](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3be4f8/32.png) [@Obnoxious\_Hood\_Ornament](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Obnoxious_Hood_Ornament)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2014, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-authors-writers-and-journalists/680740/27 "2014-02-10T15:00:26Z")
This thread does not _effect_ me. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2014, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-authors-writers-and-journalists/680740/28 "2014-02-11T01:06:46Z")
> [@Obnoxious\_Hood\_Ornament](#): > > This thread does not _effect_ me. But it might effect a change in your word use. ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2014, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-authors-writers-and-journalists/680740/29 "2014-02-11T15:10:25Z")
> [@Obnoxious\_Hood\_Ornament](#): > > This thread does not _effect_ me. They’re thier, I’m sure it will eventually. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-authors-writers-and-journalists/680740.md?page=1)