Spelling particularly in newspapers

I don't claim to be best speller in the world but I do wonder does anyone proof read newspapers these days. Reading an article about Downton I spotted 4 gaffs biggest one being they claimed it was aimed at gentile people, now either they made a mistake and meant genteel or we have an anti Jewish programme which I find odd since we have some Jewish characters who are head and shoulders nicer than the upstairs characters we normally have.

So why don't they check their spellings ?

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I know what you mean, Julie, I get really annoyed with the spelling mistakes - can make all the difference as to whether a sentence makes sense or not!

Do proof readers exist nowadays?? Probably not..

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Perhaps even the proof readers can´t spell. There are very many spelling mistakes in news articles on the internet, some can obviously be put down to transposition but there are many spelling mistakes. Perhaps people don´t bother these days.

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I used to know a proof reader a few years; well knew of her. She was my bosses wife. She couldn't have got much work, because she had to take a PT job in Tesco.

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Saying that, on the TV this morning, the News reader said:

I'd written it down, she should have said, I wrote it down.

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Several years ago I spotted an advert in our local newspaper in the items for sale column - "Holiday caravan for sale, Sighted!".....

Should have gone to Specsavers! Obviously!

Malc.

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LOL some ebay descriptions can make very entertaining reading.

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How many times do you hear people say 'president' when they mean 'precedent'?

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My partner has just done some proof reading for an author, so some people do still use them.

Yes, it does surprise me when it's a newspaper or the like. It seems to make it "poor" somehow............

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They're still around then - good, we obviously need them!