Sunday, 30 April 2017

WHAT IS IT (SOME) EDITORS DO AGAIN?


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Having formerly worked in comics for 15 years, and having read them for over 50, I've often found myself amazed by the gaffs some alleged editors made (or failed to notice) when it came to putting a comic together.  Here are just 6 I've seen in comics (and blogs) over the years.  Can you think of any others?  Then leave a comment in the you-know-where.

Correct ones on the left, wrong ones on the right.

Sought-after.  (Not sort-after.)

Could have.  (Not could of.)

Whet your appetite.  (Not wet.)

Heyday.  (Not hayday.)

Prerogative.  (Not perogative.)

Prodigy.  (Not progidy.)

If ignorance is bliss, then there must be a hell of a lot of ecstatically happy people around.   
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9 comments:

  1. Anonymous1 May 2017 at 00:21

    Nuclear not nucular.

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  2. Kid1 May 2017 at 00:25

    Yeah, but I'm talking written, not spoken, CJ. Or have you really seen it written as nucular? If so, that's astoundingly bad.

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  3. TC1 May 2017 at 00:44

    Using "I" as an object in a sentence.

    Conflating similar-sounding words: flaunt and flout, compose and comprise, proscribe and prescribe, uninterested and disinterested, nauseous and nauseated.

    Judges and referees should be disinterested, that is, impartial. They should not be uninterested in the proceedings.

    Jezebel flouted tradition by flaunting her red dress.

    The USA comprises 50 states, and the UK comprises England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. The 50 states compose the US. England, Scotland, and Wales compose Great Britain, and Great Britain and Northern Ireland compose the UK.

    "Most unique," "very unique," "one of the most unique..." If it's unique, it's one of a kind, and there are no degrees of uniqueness.

    Using "penultimate" to mean ultimate. It is not only incorrect, it's pretentious.

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  4. Kid1 May 2017 at 01:13

    I might be guilty of that first one myself, TC. Sometimes 'me' just doesn't 'sound' right. Some great choices there.

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  5. Anonymous1 May 2017 at 01:54

    Yes, I did see nuclear written as nucular - not that long ago but I probably saw it online rather than in a newspaper or magazine.

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  6. B Smith1 May 2017 at 03:06

    Renown as an adjective.

    Reign and rein being interchangeable...similarly bear and bare.

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  7. Kid1 May 2017 at 10:03

    Hey, you'll never believe it, CJ. Google the word 'nucular'.

    ******

    Yup, BS, seen that too. Annoying, ain't it.

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  8. John Pitt5 May 2017 at 21:29

    Pharoah instead of Fairoh!

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  9. Kid6 May 2017 at 00:23

    What, you mean it isn't 'fare-o'? Drat!

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