Typo police
Just throwing a few quirky stories at you: Erratum intolerant people are taking towns to task for their misspellings, bad punctuation and errors of logic on signage and elsewhere. I've seen a few stories like this over the years.
These two self-righteous English admonishers on the front page of the Boston Globe today trek across the country to make a point -- or take one out. "Their weapons: Wite-Out, markers, ink pens, tape, and nerves of steel."
Today the Oregonian says, What's up with this stupid hyphen to denote a bike box, a sign to help make cyclists more visible to motorists? It says "WAIT-HERE." What?
My favorite appeared year from a colleague, Danielle Dreilinger, at the City Weekly section for the Boston Globe. It's a little more my style -- story like.
Also, check out the extraneous quotation mark blog. Let the corrections continue!
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