CHERTSEY

BOATS, BRIDGES, BOILERS ... IF IT'S GOT RIVETS, I'M RIVETTED
... feminist, atheist, autistic academic and historic narrowboater ...
Likes snooker, beer, tea, rivets and solitude, and is strangely fascinated by the cinema organ.
And there might be something about railways.
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Friday 22 March 2019

At a hundred yards...

I wasn't even looking, I swear. I was just walking past and something caught my eye; I thought 'something's not right there' and I had to turn back and look until I'd worked out what it was.
Proofreader woman. Never off duty. It's a blessing and a curse.


And yes, I am only too well aware that this blog is frequently very poorly proofread.

3 comments:

  1. Grocer's apostrophe - crops up everywhere.

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  2. Tut tut University of Southampton.... but let’s not call it a printers error, we used to spot them before they were printed in volume.

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  3. Ah, I thought the greengrocer's apostrophe manifested in plurals...

    Nev, no way was I blaming the printers - I blame Scientists... and at the University of Sheffield as well as Southampton!

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