Adventures in Proofreading

Some may think that proofreading (my profession du jour) is boring. I say it's an adventure. You just never know what you might find.

In the interests of not getting fired, I will refrain from posting some of the more intriguing errors, typos, innuendos, and awkward grammatical constructions I've found in client material as it goes the rounds in our agency. But don't worry — I find mistakes all over the place, not just at work, and sometimes it can be quite entertaining.

As in this sentence, culled from the Pittsburgh Tribune Review (via Critical Mass):

"DeYoung, a prize-winning Washington Post reporter, is the kind of biographer every pubic figure hopes for, or ought to: judicious, thorough, unstinting." (emphasis mine)

Classic. Gotta love the typos that don't get caught by spell check because they happen to be reel words.