My son passed this on to me after he had mentioned the error to one of the people involved, who then said, “You are your mom’s kid for sure.” I’m so proud!

My son passed this on to me after he had mentioned the error to one of the people involved, who then said, “You are your mom’s kid for sure.” I’m so proud!

This spam comment was in my “other” blog (60isthenew60blog.com). While I don’t have anything on that blog to let them know that proofreading is my passion, if you’re offering to write for someone, you should probably do a much better job in the three sentences you send them.

I am posting this to teach proofreading skills NOT as a political statement and I will not tolerate any comments on this blog regarding politics. They will be deleted. If you want to post about politics, there are plenty of places to do that, this just isn’t one of them. Thanks!
This headline recently showed up as “Breaking News” in my email:

Well, I had a feeling it wasn’t a “Board” Wall they were really discussing, so I clicked on the “Read More” and this is what the article headline actually looked like:

Again, I think this is a product of news outlets moving far too fast to be the first one out with the news and depending too much on spell check. Slow it down, people!
I saw this sign while I was waiting for my car at a local carwash and this little gem caught my eye.

This was in a local business publication. Spelling errors in headlines are the worst. Please make sure you have turned off the “Ignore words in UPPERCASE” option in the Proofing Word Options under File, Options so this kind of error doesn’t occur in your headings!

I received this in a notice from my insurance company checking on slow refills of a prescription. Yes, perhaps I might have forgotten to take it a day or two, but ask me if I “forget” NOT “foget.” Inexcusable!

A friend sent me this from our local news station alert to her mobile phone.

This was recently in my Facebook feed, so I had to get a screenshot to share with you.

My sister sent this one to me and no thank you!

A friend sent this to me. I’m not sure why they have the apostrophe “s” on cookie and “shortbread” should be one word when you’re talking about a shortbread cookie.
