Monday, December 6, 2010

Doling out more errors

See that word dolling up there? Yeah, it's not a word. A quick spell check would have caught that. The word the writer (of "Mayor Robertson an acolyte of global green plutocrats" in The Vancouver Courier on December 1, 2010) wanted was doling. Then,

see that period at the very end of the above excerpt? It's supposed to go before the closing parenthesis, because the entire sentence - in fact, the entire paragraph - is contained within the parentheses.

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