Look out he’s got a organic chemical process!
It kind of amuses me when professionals end up with absurd substitutions to obscure words. Makes me feel a bit less jackassy about mine.
There’s a lot more wrong with that quote than just a spelling error. Reading that was painful.
But in this age of insta-news, “better to be first than to be right” seems to be the new mindset.
It could be worse.
Yes, if George W. Bush were heavily armed in a car in Manhattan, I’d think twice about threatening him, no matter how much ammonization i had on me.
I think newspapers (and even more so online news sources) consider copy editors are a luxury.
(BTW, I was always amused to see in the movie Never Been Kissed that Drew Barrymore’s character, a copy editor for the Chicago Sun-Times, has a private office with a window and a nice view and a personal assistant.)
And the article itself could use some proofreading.
Spell checker, fact checker, who has time these days!
Bolding mine - That’s really funny.
For the record, the OP’s title is missing a comma. Just sayin’. 
Never mind.
and it should either be …spellchecking… or …using a spellchecker…
“He’s my father!” WHAP “He’s my son!” WHAP “He’s my father and my son!”
Nevermind, it’s just Texas.
(of course, for those following at home: one of George W’s twins IS named Barbara)
Well, I would indeed bide the Year Of The Whores a VERY hearty welcome!
I’m still giggling at the moment of violence.
Wait, what? “Fixated on Barbara Bush?!” <shudder> Now I’ve heard everything.
Until the next thing, should be along in <looks at watch> five minutes or so.
This recent article discussing the Shepard tone/scale spells it “Shepherd” 7 times. The Illusion That Makes It Sound Like a Pitch Is Constantly Rising - The Atlantic
A lot of major news sites don’t even bother to run spellcheckers. I saw one major site yesterday had “January” misspelled.
If they can’t even be bothered to run a spellchecker on an article, can you trust the actual content at all?
Not a luxury. A commodity. The once-great Hartford Courant **has **copyeditors… in Chicago. They’re okay at all that Englishing stuff, but they don’t know streets from towns from parks from public figures, so absurdities abound.
A friend of mine once had a neighbor who was a Special Agent of the U.S. Secret Service. This was years before 9/11. He wasn’t on the Presidential Productive Detail. One day he showed us what was in the trunk of his company car.
:eek:
One does not want to fuck with the USSS.
From today’s Christian Science Monitor. When what used to be one of the finest news sources in the country can’t get a headline right…
“Drought-Striken California Welcomes Weekend Storm”