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#writeright #typotyrant–Writealready2017.com

April 8, 2020January 3, 2020 by Deana Coddaire, posted in #typotyrant, #writeright, Editing help, proofreading, typos, Uncategorized, writing, writing problems

Ok. I see the thought process here. Electric, electricuted. But for Pete's sake, you KNOW spell check picked up on that...  

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#writeright #typotyrant–Writealready2017.com

January 12, 2020January 3, 2020 by Deana Coddaire, posted in #typotyrant, #writeright, Editing help, proofreading, typos, Uncategorized, writing, writing problems

I'm sure this poor soul was simply a victim of autocorrect...but this one really made me laugh out loud. More so the response:

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#writeright #typotyrant–Writealready2017.com

January 3, 2020 by Deana Coddaire, posted in #typotyrant, #writeright, typos, Uncategorized, writing, writing problems

Remove that painstaking dash and drop it down to the next line, after "kiln," please.  

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#writeright #typotyrant–Writealready2017.com

March 23, 2019 by Deana Coddaire, posted in #typotyrant, #writeright, typos, Uncategorized

Wouldn't you think spell check would've picked uppp on that?    

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#writeright #typotyrant–Writealready2017.com

March 1, 2019February 27, 2019 by Deana Coddaire, posted in #typotyrant, #writeright, proofreading, typos, Uncategorized, writing

Those pesky, pesky, possessive apostrophes...

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#writeright #typotyrant–Writealready2017.com

February 17, 2019January 31, 2019 by Deana Coddaire, posted in #typotyrant, #writeright, proofreading, typos, Uncategorized, writing, writing problems

I think I see this word misspelled more often than I see it spelled properly...

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#writeright #typotyrant–Writealready2017.com

February 12, 2019January 31, 2019 by Deana Coddaire, posted in #typotyrant, #writeright, typos, Uncategorized, writing, Writing humor, writing problems

Perhaps it's someone's name, and you can only hunt when accompanied by said person...

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#writeright #typotyrant–Writealready 2017

February 1, 2019January 9, 2019 by Deana Coddaire, posted in #typotyrant, #writeright, Editing help, proofreading, typos, Uncategorized, writing, Writing advice, writing problems

Taken from my calendar...but had to share, because the improper use of quotation marks ranks among the top few of my biggest pet peeves.

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#writeright #typotyrant–Writealready 2017

January 27, 2019January 9, 2019 by Deana Coddaire, posted in #typotyrant, #writeright, Editing help, proofreading, typos, Uncategorized, writing, writing problems

Maybe the writer had a lisp...

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#writeright #typotyrant–Writealready 2017

January 23, 2019January 9, 2019 by Deana Coddaire, posted in #typotyrant, #writeright, Editing help, proofreading, typos, Uncategorized, writing, writing problems

Bad translations provide endless fodder for the grammatically inclined...

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