Showing posts with label proof reading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label proof reading. Show all posts

Friday, 18 October 2013

Day 291. Precision except in the proof reading.


Like many writers I make mistakes. Often through laziness or as a result of not checking properly when autocorrect kicks in - a favourite being to change 'its' to 'it's' regardless of the subject to which it's attached.

Heston Blumenthal clearly puts his name to many things but I wonder if any of his team proof read the packaging of products he endorses. This thermometer arrived today claiming to '... mainain optimum oven temperature...' I like to think even at my most inert I'd have spotted this one. Then again, mabe not...