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Felice Friese Felice Friese is offline
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Default Found typo on cereal box!


"Andy" <q> wrote in message ...
> Boron Elgar said...


>> Try reading newspapers or online news sources or almost anything else
>> that doesn't go through the more rigorous proofreading that a human
>> provides, but relies instead on speelchuckers.
>>
>> Boron

>
> Sure but a spell checker worth it's salt should've flagged "manesium." The
> fact that a typo slipped by says that somebody dropped the ball BIG TIME
> in
> the art department. Imagine if that happened to US currency? IN GOD WE
> TRUSST?
>
> Andy


A retired editor never retires; she lives on to comment:

A spell checker "worth it's salt" would have flagged "it's" used instead of
the correct "its". So who dropped the ball BIG TIME?

Felice
(IN DOG WE TRUST)