I always remember a friend told me a Tale about the Raj in India. The babus( Indian Civil service) were not permitted to alter any written document originating with A British Officer, so if there were spelling mistakes or punctuation errors in a document it had to be returned to the individual for correction with each correction initialled. A British Officer involved in railroad repairs lost a crowbar, the paper explaining its loss followed him around India for nearly a year, with requests for changes in spelling and punctuation etc but never once querying the cause he gave for the loss which was "The steel crowbar was eaten by termites"