Maybe it’s because I’m writing this on a Friday and the prospect of a weekend tipple is looming in blatant disregard for ‘Go Sober’ October, but I seem to have encountered a lot of beer-related typos recently. The processes and…
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Writing it with style
One of the things we proofreaders constantly seek to achieve is consistency. And one of the ways we achieve this is through using a house style. Publishing companies, magazines, journals and newspapers, among others, frequently have their own. So, in…
Practice makes perfect
Proofreaders find many different errors in documents (thankfully, or we’d be out of a job!). However, some are much more common than others, and one that we seem to see time and time again is the word ‘practice’ – or…
‘I before E except after C’ – techniques for remembering tricky spellings
It may have the olde-worlde ring of a quaint but questionable proverb, and has indeed been much maligned in recent years, but there’s more truth to this well-known rule than initially meets the eye (or E). Here, we take a…
Tagged with: mnemonic, mnemonics, spelling rule, spelling rules, spelling tips, tips
Posted in Spelling, Vocabulary
Posted in Spelling, Vocabulary
Who is Hugh Jackilometresan? – The Dangers of Find and Replace
Players of Trivial Pursuit have been amused and baffled in recent years by the inclusion of a question about that well-known Australian actor Hugh Jackilometresan. Find and replace the space In a previous blog post, we sang the praises of…
Tagged with: find and replace, funny spelling mistakes, global find and replace, replace all
Posted in Proofreading/copy-editing, Spelling, Style
Posted in Proofreading/copy-editing, Spelling, Style