This misspelled placard (on the far left below) was raised right in front of the speakers’ platform, and appeared widely in press photos and TV footage of the event as a consequence:
Why should one proofread before you post [sic]? Let us count the ways: From http://blog.ravenit.com/2012/03/19/your-privacy-can-an-employer-ask-for-your-facebook-login-and-password/: I have become acutely aware that in this day and age you cannot expect any privacy once you walk out the front door of your house. Video and camera’s are everywhere and one just has to expect that your every [...]
From “Versus” (a novella-in-progress), by C. Clayton James: Installment No. 8: He stood up then to fit his wallet back into the jeans my mother had bought him the previous Christmas; he’d spent Boxing Day in a tub of hot water, shrinking them down to the fit he preferred. For months afterwards the floor of [...]
Spotted on http://www.laganhomes.com/Find-My-Home.aspx : “Our attention to detail and professionalism has not only been recognised by our homebuyers but the NHBC has awarded our company’s staff with the Pride in the Job Quality Award for the last six successive years.” Can’t see what the problem is — or rather, what the problems are? [...]
From: “admin@imperialessays.co.uk” admin@imperialessays.co.uk Sent: Wednesday, 26 October 2011, 16:53 Subject: Academic Writting Job Dear Writer, Thank you very much for showing interest in the position of freelaunce academic writer. I am sorry for the delayed responce; at the time you filled the application form on our website, our recrument was closed, however as this is [...]
Count the grammatical errors in this insert from the Ulster Folk & Transport Museum’s 2011 Spirit of Christmas Past programme:
Trying to sell an unnecessary item? You’ll need better copy than this!
tickety-moo makes lovely ice cream — and gave us our favourite real world error (August 2011): Oghill Farm signage typo (Killadeas, August 2011)
February 2012: nice sentiment; shame about the spelling…
TK should have gone to Reads Well before this went to print:
What’s creepier than a Cyberman? Voices that stare…
Handout provided by SSA officer (Corporation Street, Belfast) to Steps to Work programme participant, November 2011.
Enourmous [sic] error spotted 6th March 2012 in an email from Michael Torbert (donotreply@semperfiwebdesign.com), Semper Fi Web Design (‘Making WordPress Sites Better Since 2007′): “Our subscribers have an exclusive 30% discount with coupon code SEMPERFI30. Click here to use take advantage of your enourmous discount while it’s still available.”
From “Language, Free: Blogs for grammar geeks” by Merrill Perlman, CJR.org, 19 December 2011: In Miracle on 34th Street, Kris Kringle makes lots of friends — and money for Macy’s — by sending customers elsewhere when Macy’s didn’t have something. In the same spirt, this week Language Corner is sending you to lots of other [...]
From NYTimes.com, ”The Muses of Insert, Delete and Execute” by Jennifer Schuessler, 25th December 2011: The literary history of the typewriter has its well-established milestones, from Mark Twain producing the fiirst typewritten manuscript with “Life on the Mississippi” to Truman Capote famously dismissing Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road,” pounded out on a 120-foot scroll, with the [...]
Reads Well founder Jennifer Cornell has worked as a pet sitter, a sandwich maker, a field biologist, a community support coordinator, a scientific illustrator, a public speaking coach and a professor of English.
In addition to fiction, she has published original research in a wide range of fields, including the defensive behaviour of Buckmoth caterpillars (Hemileuca lucina), representations of political violence in film and literature, the Black Death, restorative justice, and the literary motif of star-crossed love. She’s been teaching somebody something for over 25 years. 
