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January 15, 2008
Spelling test
We are all being extra careful this week after the cock up with a spelling mistake in the Gazette's sister paper the Leader last week.
It really was the worst possible mistake with a word being spelt incorrectly in the front page headline. For those of you who missed it despair was spelt dispair.
I think we were all hit by word blindness because several people read the page before it went to print but missed the error.
And there have been plenty of people only too happy to tell us about the mistake.
Infact, one person has even called for my head along with the person responsible for the error. I think that's a bit extreme but perhaps it may be a case of daily spelling tests and bedtime reading of a dictionary for staff in future!
We have still got plenty of pages to finish for this week's Gazette so it's going to be a busy few hours while at the same time I will be keeping a watchful eye on my mobile phone ringing.
My son's partner is due to give birth anytime now which means that I will shortly become a grandad. As they live in Scotland I am also preparing to hot foot it north of the border shortly to see the new arrivial.
Posted by aseal at January 15, 2008 7:53 AM
Comments...
It happens to all of us Adrian; even BusinessWeek had a typo in a strapline a couple of weeks back.
Sadly people are all too keen to point out the one error and not the 99.9% of pages that don't have problems. Such is life.
Comment posted by: Andrew at January 16, 2008 11:56 AM