A Reporter's Life

Canon v. cannon

Words of advice: Don't put on a turban, take off your shirt, grab your Canon camcorder and begin dancing through the middle of a private Muslim wedding party. If you insist on doing so, buy a different brand of camera so that nobody tells police you're "armed with a cannon."

(Incidentally, the guy in this story sold me an air filter a couple of months ago. The air filter is now in my ex-car that is apparently going to be purchased by the grandson of the dealership owner. You really wanted to know all of this extra information, didn't you?)

Posted by Layla at 9:15 AM, June 30, 2004

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Homonyms are such fun! Tuesday someone wanted to say that limo drivers were able to keep secrets and thus wrote that they were "discrete." Unfortunately this was in a headline. On A-1. Above the fold. Neither A-slot nor the proofer caught it. We got a letter from a reader that day that said something like "I hope the driver is discrete; wouldn't want a blend of more than one driver, would we?" ...

Posted by: lunza at 9:38 AM, June 30, 2004

At least you don't work for the Stockton Record, which had "ahed" in a big, bold headline stripped across the top of the front page the other day. A rare homonym blooper is better than a big, fat spelling error. :-)

Posted by: Layla at 10:55 PM, June 30, 2004

The sports section of the Glasgow Herald has a good one at the weekend: no-one had bothered to fill in the large-type single-column quote (that sits in the middle of the piece and piques the casual reader's interest) in an article on Euro 2004, and thus it simply stated in bold twenty-point type:

"This is a single-column quote for use with standard articles."

Posted by: Bourne at 12:52 AM, July 01, 2004

And that is why, bourne, long long ago in j-school i was taught to use non-repro pen (or nowadays it's "note form" computer type.) Now I'm starting to feel old ...

Posted by: jpb at 7:06 PM, July 01, 2004

And, Layla, I still think you should write about the man armed with a pit bill (note to reader: read aloud)

Posted by: jpb at 7:08 PM, July 01, 2004

I mean "bull" ... pit bull (proofreading does wonders!)

Posted by: jpb at 7:09 PM, July 01, 2004

Actually, the "pit bull" v. "pistol" thing was in the paper, but you'll have to do a find for "pistol" since it got a bit buried.

Posted by: Layla at 7:42 AM, July 02, 2004

O, guess i don't read the paper ... or at least that part. The type's too small and, well, I'm getting old!

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