Hat tip to Gopher, who spotted this typo online in the New York Times:
I wonder if there’s a lethal injection for poor execution of proofreading.
April 16, 2008
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I love that even the NYT can’t get grammar right sometimes…especially because my newspaper competes with the NYT! 🙂
Comment by The Grammarphile — April 20, 2008 @ 2:53 pm |
Great catch. But don’t you remember Johnnie Cochran’s familiar refrain:
“If there’s no injection …there’s no exection.”
Comment by helen's dad — April 23, 2008 @ 8:34 pm |