I'm in love

Righting Wrong Writing

The founder of the Typo Eradication Advancement League (TEAL), Deck spent much of last year on the 2008 Typo Hunt Across America, a correctional odyssey that has taken him and an assortment of friends from coast to coast in a 1997 Nissan, righting wrong writing on signs as small as bulletin board notices and as big as billboards.

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R.I.P.

Thousands of hyphens perish as English marches on

"People are not confident about using hyphens anymore, they're not really sure what they are for," said Angus Stevenson, editor of the Shorter OED, the sixth edition of which was published this week.

Another factor in the hyphen's demise is designers' distaste for its ungainly horizontal bulk between words.

"Printed writing is very much design-led these days in adverts and Web sites, and people feel that hyphens mess up the look of a nice bit of typography," he said. "The hyphen is seen as messy looking and old-fashioned."

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You've got to be kidding me.

Colleges seek 'authenticity' in hopefuls

If there's a sign of the times in college admissions, it may be this: Steven Roy Goodman, an independent college counselor, tells clients to make a small mistake somewhere in their application — on purpose.

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No I in team either

"NIT T-shirt not worthy of champions" (Sports Illustrated):

West Virginia may have won the National Invitation Tournament, but the Mountaineers' commemorative T-shirts are less than championship material.

They contain a misspelling.

The "West Virginia" printed on the shirts players wore after winning the NIT title with a 78-73 victory over Clemson on Thursday night is missing the last "i" in "Virginia."



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Hapy Valntine's Dy

Do not tell me that the stem is an L.

Thanks to Kim S. for the tip!

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Nobody's watching

Today's Variety reports:

A Daytime Emmy snafu left National Academy of Arts & Sciences officials scrambling Monday to alert voters to a program ballot that mistakenly left off the talkshow category.

I'm not sure which is worse: NARAS's embarrassing omission or Variety's insistence on changing the spelling of talk show.

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Dear NBC . . .

From NBC4:



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