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Size matters - and so does spelling

Posted by Rob Irvine on January 10, 2007 3:04 PM | 

We have just advertised for a sports writer to join our team. His or her patch will include covering Man United AND the Welsh rugby squad ...a dream of a job, so we are expecting a lot of good applicants.
I noticed that a trade website which is running our advert had left a spelling error in the copy (fanastic, what's that a fantasist or a fanatic?) so I had to get on the blower to have it fixed. I've become obsessed with spelling errors of late - loads of them have popped up on TV captions, especially on BBC 24 and Sky News. Menus in restaurants are scattered with them.
I saw an absolute cracker last night in the gents of a bar in Llandudno. I don't want to go into some long, rambling explanation of why I was reading the blurbs on the front of a condom machine...but I do think the manufacturer should know how to spell "circumference".
Don't you?


 

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Hello, I'm Rob Irvine, editor of the best -selling newspaper in North Wales - the Daily Post. I reckon mine is one of the best jobs in newspapers - editing a paper with an incredible history, with fantastically loyal readers. And I get to live in one of the most beautiful places on earth with wife Julie and our dog Max. I'll tell you in this blog about life at the Daily Post office in Llandudno Junction together with some s

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