Nobody proofreads, anymore!

[oldrooster]

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I was named after my mother's father. He had an unusual name to begin with but added to it his was spelled an even more rare spelling of that name (but it was just one letter different). His own first cousin in her 90's (whom is also younger than he) cannot spell the name correctly even when I have told her numerous times how to spell it. I would believe at least my great-grandparents, their children, my grandmother and my grandparents children would know how to spell his name but according to this cousin they don't. But what galls me is my first cousin, cannot or perhaps will not spell it correctly. I cannot fathom HOW a woman whom has a Bachelors degree and is in her mid-forties cannot spell the first name of both her own grandfather and first cousin. I would have imagined she would have had to seen our grandfathers name spelled in his obituary, and memorial cards at his funeral. Not to mention for 25 plus years he had several awards with his name spelled correctly on them printed boldly near the main entrance to the home he and our grandmother shared.

 

[oldrooster]

I at one time subscribed to a local paper and they had classified ads they had a policy they ran the ad until the item sold. There was an ad for a 1975 dump truck in which in the details it read it was owned by "smae owner", yes smae owner. I knew autos whom had the SAME owner but never a smae owner..... What made it even more odd they sometimes printed some ads multiple times in the same paper to use as filler and this was one of the ads, also it ran for MONTHS! I do not believe they knew how to proofread or even read their own paper otherwise they would have caught it. I took a two year subscription to that paper and let it lapse after reading that ad for eighteen months. I picked up an issue some months after I stopped my service to it, and it still had the smae owner ad.