winterbadger: (editing)
winterbadger ([personal profile] winterbadger) wrote2010-10-22 02:57 pm
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if...

...you're a Royal Navy officer in charge of a new stealth ship's sea trials, the last thing you want to do is run aground in public view.

...you're a BBC News web editor, the last thing you want to do is use a pull-quote that draws attention to your spelling error to readers who might otherwise not have read down to the 11th 'graph.




(crossposted to cranky_editors)

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