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  Wrong Marriage Being Worried About in Job Posting

  2040 readersAs the national unemployment rate continues meandering between ten and eleven percent, it's becoming increasingly hard for Americans to find jobs--or even online job postings that have been competently proofread. In this recent job posting by ProPublica, a nonprofit investigative journalism outfit, apostrophes were neglected almost entirely and a couple of words are conspicuously missing. According

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  Wrong Marriage Being Worried About in Job Posting

  45 readersAs the national unemployment rate continues meandering between ten and eleven percent, it's becoming increasingly hard for Americans to find jobs--or even online job postings that have been competently proofread. In this recent job posting by ProPublica, a nonprofit investigative journalism outfit, apostrophes were neglected almost entirely and a couple of words are conspicuously missing. According

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  Proofreader Job Posting Sullied By Lack of Proofreading

  3517 readersThis type of irony has been featured several times before here on the blog: A company looking for a proofreader fails to demonstrate competent proofreading ability in the very job posting seeking the proofreader.Oh, the stupidity! Look at the mess high...

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  S.I. Makes Error In Baseball Story

  1423 readersAlmost a month ago, reader Slapinions e-mailed the Proofreader and stated, ""I found an error in the following S.I. article" about Nick Johnson returning to the New York Yankees. "I thought maybe you'd enjoy it," Slapinions concluded. Well, Slapinions, the Proofreader never enjoys seeing foolish mistakes like this one, especially when it was made by a

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  S.I. Makes Error In Baseball Story

  46 readersAlmost a month ago, reader Slapinions e-mailed the Proofreader and stated, ""I found an error in the following S.I. article" about Nick Johnson returning to the New York Yankees. "I thought maybe you'd enjoy it," Slapinions concluded. Well, Slapinions, the Proofreader never enjoys seeing foolish mistakes like this one, especially when it was made by a

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  Missing Spaces, Letters and Extraneous Letters; Small Mistakes

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  How to Write First Thing in the Morning

  2021 readersPhoto courtesy of Peter Gene As I write these words, it’s a little after 4:00 a.m. and my wife and kids are sleeping. The house is dark and quiet, with no TV or music playing, no conversation to distract the voice in my head. It’s the perfect writing environment, for me at least. When we write, we are

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  More Typos In Coverage of Tiger Woods Scandal

  1061 readersThe Proofreader is trying to keep up with the women in the Tiger Woods scandal, but simply cannot. At the latest count, twelve women have allegedly had affairs with the golfing great. That's three more women since the last post. To counter the additional three women, the Proofreader has only found two additional mistakes, and