On Sun, 1 Aug 2004 12:08:12 -0400, John Cowan <
cowan@...> wrote:
> Nicholas Bodley scripsit:
>
>> (My favorite: A local newspaper headline about an exfoliating
>> refurbished
>> carillon: "Bells to peel again".)
>
> Diffidently I suggest that the copy editor who thought up that headline
> was being funny, and knew perfectly well how to spell. (I was one
> myself, briefly, so I have some idea what I'm talking about here.)
I'd happily agree, except that I've talked with the staff of the
newspaper; the headlines were, and might still be, written around midnight
at the printing plant in Framingham, about halfway between Boston and
Worcester. I have a standing offer to proofread the headlines, but it's
really out of the question because I have no car, and public
transportation stops around midnight. It's the Daily (formerly Waltham)
News-Tribune, iirc a CNC publication.
I was an associate editor (for technical content) about 25 years ago. Had
a copy editor who was really fond of starting sentences with "And...". We
made our peace...
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Nicholas Bodley /*|*\ Waltham, Mass.
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