Sometimes it's the little things


... and then there’s this, about which the less said the better:

occasional essays on working with words and pictures
—writing, editing, typographic design, web design, and publishing—
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A former Connecticut priest traces the Catholic Church's abuse crisis to the source in a series of thoughtful personal essays.
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Nothing you need to know, but oh so much you want to know about everyday life at the time of Shakespeare.
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3 Comments:
Those who don't understand the difference—or at least those whose staff members don't understand the difference—should never be allow to hold office.
Well, I guess that means we shouldn't vote for anyone at CNN, either.
Katharine, you know how I do rail against the MBA mentality, so maybe this is a stretch. But what I see here is a campaign manager (read: MBA) deciding he can whip out his own banner graphic without help from anyone with actual expertise.
But there's also the problem that Microsoft Word's autocorrect feature gets this wrong all the time. You'd think, after all these years, that someone would have figured out a way to trap for the difference between an apostrophe and a single quote, particularly in front of a numeral.
I know this deals with single quote vs. apostrophe, but you might want to share this with Bethany at The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks at http://quotation-marks.blogspot.com/ -- sometimes she explores other misuses of punctuation.
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