Sunday, December 17, 2006

I Could be a Newspaper Editor!!

I was reading through The New Sunday Times newspaper this morning, and I can't help but notice a series of errors. I mean, this is a newspaper with a nationwide circulation and they have so many errors? I'm not picking on the newspaper, but it shows how much effort was done during proof reading. I do not have a PhD in English mind you, but these are very glaring mistakes. Correct me if I'm wrong though, but take a look at 3 obvious mistakes which I spotted in one days paper and you be the judge.

Error #1:
The top half of the article is reporting on how Arsenal made a comeback from 2 goals down from Portsmouth. The third paragraph suddenly jumps to reporting about a Liverpool vs Charlton match. I think they might have left out a paragraph here.


Error #2:
This is an advert for Bosch horns. I guess they invented a new thing call 'horms'




Error #3:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't it be '200,000 kg of meals served at the Athletes Village'? How the hell did they come up with 200,000 km of food? Did they line up the sausages and eggs to form a long line??


So there, I don't know if there are anymore such errors, but I think these are the 3 that were most glaring to me. Time to buck up NST. Do you think I should write in to their editor?

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