Road Scholar Copy Edits America
source: http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/BusinessTravel/story?id=4593597
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Some of the littlest things are big to Jeff Deck, who is traveling the country in search of mistakes.
Man travels nation to correct typos on signs.
He's not looking for big ones, just the small ones like the missing "c" in "cappucino" and the misplaced apostrophe in "Today Special's" on the menu board.
This 28-year-old Dartmouth graduate is crossing America searching for and correcting typographical errors in public places.
Wearing a brown fedora, he's the Indiana Jones of typos. He finds them on parking signs, where cars will be towed at "owners expense," and at the "stationary" store, where they sell "dye cast" metal key chains.
Frequently, the problem is those wayward apostrophes.
"The apostrophe shows up when it's not wanted and is never there when you need it," he said as he walked along Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, finding plenty of typos wherever he looked.
He came across a T-shirt shop where the dash was missing between the "T" and the "shirt."
Man travels nation to correct typos on signs.
He's not looking for big ones, just the small ones like the missing "c" in "cappucino" and the misplaced apostrophe in "Today Special's" on the menu board.
This 28-year-old Dartmouth graduate is crossing America searching for and correcting typographical errors in public places.
Wearing a brown fedora, he's the Indiana Jones of typos. He finds them on parking signs, where cars will be towed at "owners expense," and at the "stationary" store, where they sell "dye cast" metal key chains.
Frequently, the problem is those wayward apostrophes.
"The apostrophe shows up when it's not wanted and is never there when you need it," he said as he walked along Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, finding plenty of typos wherever he looked.
He came across a T-shirt shop where the dash was missing between the "T" and the "shirt."
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Warrenpeace21
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As a Copywriter, I also find Error spotting very interesting. This is a very good article.
- 4 years ago
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