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Spot the mistake from the Kilkenny People this week
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04-09-2009 3:29pm#1
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Lots of mistakes in that paper.
Here's one from The Advertiser a while back:
Presumably the author of the article (who is actually the editor of the paper by the way) was referring to secret ballots and NOT a person or persons who are involved in clandestine singing operations.
In fairness, if I was the one responsible for producing a local paper, I would try to get someone writing the articles, and indeed editing the paper itself, who knows the difference between ballot and ballad. But I am not. I am an internet moan.
Another gem of the 'People was a sentence along the lines of "now that your appetites are sufficiently wet" ... who knows what a wet appitite is? I don't anyway.
I think that perhaps this was mis-extrapolated from the phrase to WHET one's appetite; whet of course being a synonym for sharpen and nothing at all to do with the presence of water.
Given that these are local newspapers, you're not exactly going to have pulitzer standard writing in them, though are you? But they should at least make an effort, and they don't. One look at the elf who dishes out fashion advise like its going out of fashion or a cursory examination of what-his-name's hackneyed yawn-fest of a miscellany is sufficient to confirm this theory, if in any doubt.0 -
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