Saturday, August 06, 2011

It's a Losing Battle

Mystery superhero leads fight on louts he accuses of MURDER – of the English language

4 comments:

Deb said...

It sure is! I just finished an obviously well-researched and well-written biography in which the author kept using "comprised" incorrectly--and he used the word about six times. I started saying, "Hello, Editor!" every time I encounted it.

Bud said...

"That's okay, the computer editor will clean it up for final copy." Not!

Elizabeth Foxwell said...

Read about my colleague Jeff Deck's efforts with the Typo Eradication Advancement League:

http://greattypohunt.com

Unknown said...

Thanks, Beth!