autolycus said

I find journalistic inaccuracies more annoying. They are forever passing on long-shot popular fallacies and linguistic flaws.

We also suffer from a lack of sub-editors here - my favourite paper got rid of them & outsourced! I assume not every story headed their way from some of the articles I see.

So you find stuff like a reference to the Queen (of Britain) as Her Highness (Majesty = Ruler, Highness = family members for those without British background or wide reading.) I saw another good/bad example last week & can't remember it. I know I'll see more.

Back in the days when desktop publishing was widespread, the Govt agency where I worked got rid of the Publishing Section as every section could produce their own works. Well, you can imagine the consternation when a man rang us & courteously informed us that our major publication had typos. Someone/s forgot they were working on templates that included last year's date in chapter heading! Oops, fortunately he wasn't the sort to call the media

sandra (picky pedant)