My son sent this to me from one of the trade publications he received at the office. In a trade magazine! That is distributed to companies you want to do business with! Any advertisement for publication should be proofread by people who understand the industry and review every single word. Publication of your work product is too important to have these kinds of errors for everyone in your industry to see.
i was looking up information about payroll reports when I came across this error which jumped out at me. It is proof that you can’t trust spell check. Both words are spelled correctly. I have trouble with “statues” instead of “statutes” sometimes too, but I check to make sure I have them right. And I’m not a government entity directing the public to the actual statute!
I captured these photos during a recent trip to Las Vegas. The “tomato’s” is what caught my eye, but as I and my friends started looking at it, the errors just kept coming. Some tips–commas are good, singulars and plurals are important, and it is “mixed” lettuce (but at least they were consistently wrong). I should disclose that I don’t think English was their first language, but when you have your business in America, it is good business sense to have someone familiar with the local language check your work.
My favorite source of Grammar Giggles (my local news station) had a pretty difficult time of it the other night. Three Grammar Giggles in one news story!
The first picture had me looking twice. I didn’t think her name was Steven, but the banner covered her actual nameplate and I just wasn’t sure:
Then they went to the next person:
This still could be a name issue, except now I can see the nameplate. OK, so they got the names mixed up. But then
It was a story about the Litchfield Park School District, which they got right in one place, but one would think that the name of the street in LITCHFIELD Park would be LITCHFIELD (which it is).
Three strikes, you’re out!
I saw this on my favorite local news channel, which is also the source of many Grammar Giggles. This is something that spell check would not have flagged since all of the words are spelled correctly–they’re just not all the right words.
I saw this sign at a charity walk I participated in. While I hesitate to use it because (a) it was a charity thing and (b) a child could have prepared the sign since the charity was geared to children, I decided to use it anyway as a teaching tool–and TWO mistakes in the same sign cannot possibly get by without becoming a Grammar Giggle. Not only is “tatoo” misspelled (it should be “tattoo”), but “We got cute ones” should be “We have got cute ones” or “We‘ve got cute ones.” I’m sure it was probably an early morning not enough coffee thing, but it is incorrect and is a bad example–particularly when it is an event geared toward children.
This one I just couldn’t resist. So many people need this. Note the correct use of “you’re,” which is very rare on Facebook. Merry Christmas from Proof That proofreading blog!
I love watching the news and finding issues. I listen to the news a lot, but don’t always pay attention to the words on the screen. This was on our local news the other day.
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