Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 22:55:13 -0400
From: Ted White <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: "Is This The Greatest NY Times Correction Of All Time?"
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On 5/9/2011 10:40 PM, Keith F. Lynch wrote:

>  "Mike B." <yahoo at omniphile.com> wrote:
 >
> > Both are pretty interesting, but you can die from 1000 minor cuts;
> > you don't need a major wound like those:
>
> > http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/12/opinion/12pubed.html?pagewanted=all
>
>  Ironically, in that article about errors, every single apostrophe
>  is missing.

No they're not. This must be a function of your browser.

This is the opening sentence. I copy it verbatim:

"WHEN Michele Sugg, a clinical social worker from Branford, Conn., saw a
friend’s name misspelled in The New York Times last month, she
immediately asked for a correction."

Note "friend’s."

--Ted White