Maybe calling them "typos" is being too kind ... one of the "typos" that seems to catch my eye fairly frequently is the use of the spelling "lead" when the writer means "led" (the past tense of the verb "to lead"). We all know that the metal "lead" is pronounced with a short "e", as in "led", but when a writer carelessly types "lead" when they mean "led", the reader (alright, I mean "I") will confuse it for the present tense of the verb instead, which distracts the reader from the intended sense of the sentence.
(Don't get me started on "effect" and "affect" - oh, alright, maybe in another blog entry ...)
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
2 comments:
nice blog idea uncle C!! xhols
Here's an examaple of what I'm referring to ... this one from the BBC web site:
"At 11:24 AM on 24 Apr 2007, C Falconer wrote:
Re "Goldeneye" - I suspect the lure here is Charles Dance - thinking-woman-of-a-certain-age's crumpet
(or so I am lead to believe)"
Post a Comment