We are still being encouraged to wear masks in shops and public transport, continue with hand washing, social distancing of 2 metres. Shops are all open now and appear to be scrupulous in their hygiene and public health practices e.g. use santizer at the door, follow the arrows, use a credit card contactless payment etc. No opening of theatres, concert halls, building for religious observance.
John and Mairi and the children are on holiday;
Having spent a lot of time looking at text when producing printed matter I cannot help notice typos! This week I came across three.
I was talking to Bill Donaldson about this and he pointed out that this is because text is dictated or spoken, I suppose, into the iPhone or whatever. That may be the case in the following:
This is the front cover of a magazine I noticed when I was browsing in the supermarket. The error is in some lines by Ralph Waldo Emerson, jumped out at me... No thumbing through the magazine during Lockdown, of course, but who would want to after looking at the cover!
The next 2 are plain ol' typos. Does no one ever check copy any more?!
Above: Publishers blurb of a book by Judith Flanders A Place for Everything
published by Pan MacMillan.
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