Some of the silliest things we've seen. Names have been changed to protect the guilty.
In a four-color, glossy brochure from the world's largest software company, we saw this: "John Sumter is the general manger of our product division." They must've printed 500,000 copies without ever seeing the goof. Can you just imagine the look on the boss's face when he spotted that? It was great for us, though, because seeing the brochure in our mailbox is what got ProofreadNOW started!
Then there's the slick stock analyst who confidently touted Crisco Systems in his hip newsletter. He really shortened his tenure on Wall Street. And what about the aviation writer who kept referring to the airplane manufacturer as McDonald-Douglas. Together, these two could make what fries fly, and what flies fry.
Check out an actual advertisement in the Boston Globe. This is precisely the kind of mistake we help you avoid.
A proofreader's child suffers in a school where the principal wishes everyone a great "Spring beak," and attributes the rising test scores of the students to the "unrelentless efforts of the teachers." The history teacher distributes a homework assignment on the "Magna Carter." And of course there are the classic church bulletin goofs. No doubt you too have seen more publishing errors than you'd care to.
The next example will make you cry, especially if you work with metal. In the historic town of Marblehead, Massachusetts, at the especially historic site of Fort Sewall, are a pair of commemorative bronze plaques. One of the plaques is acceptable, with only a few minor proofreading errors. The second is another story! Look closely, toward the end, for the costly mistake. If you give up, click here. The town fathers forced the bronzeworker to redo the plaque and eat the $4,500 cost!
Finally, there's the news article in the Boston Globe covering the standard Massachusetts school exams, known as MCAS. We liked the quote from the school administrator, "These things happen. That's why they put erasers on pencils."
Mistakes DO happen, and nobody's perfect. We, however, aim our service at just these kinds of imperfections, and our customers come back again and again for our help. Achieving perfection is something we work at day in and day out.
Have you found something we can add to our expanding gallery? We'd love to see it. Send it to us at info@ProofreadNOW.com! We'll send you our designer T-shirt!
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