On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:01:53 -0500, "Ed Huntress"
wrote:





From reading newspapers, I suspect that the last proof reader retired
about ten years ago.
Gerry :-)}
London, Canada

I sometimes think that the only ones still employed are working in medical
communications. *Everything* in medicine that might expose a company to
liability -- which is virtually everything -- goes through two proofreaders.
And they're among the best I've seen in my 35 years in the business.

As for the rest of publishing, I think you're right. It makes my teeth hurt
to read expensive books and to find errors, which my old editor's eyes tend
to be drawn to like a pig finding truffles. Sometimes I think they aren't
even using spellchuckers.
One of our local reporters managed to brake the breaks on his car, or
something along that line. I suggested to him that spill chucker was
not his frond.
Gerry :-)}
London, Canada