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Originally Posted by bigjoe
You found it, but I deliberately made it easy for you.
GOOD ONE.We should do this more often. Actually have fun!
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I agree that pedantry over obvious spelling, grammatical and similar errors can be a real PITA. But having said that, those mistakes are pretty common. I have traced several of mine to hand-held devices that insist upon anticipating what you are going to type and/or autocorrecting your efforts. Combine that with fingers that seem to be getting less dextrous with age and you have a recipe for repeat offending.
Others have no excuses. I once lived in a western Queensland town that boasted a weekly newspaper published every Wednesday and distributed by leaving a bundle on the bar at the local RSL. It was known as the "3 - minute silence ". That's how long it took to read cover-to-cover. As an exemplar of spelling and grammar, it was so good that the local school set it as a task for their primary school children. Kids had to spot as many errors as they could and report them the following day - and there was never any shortage of examples.
Peter