Wednesday 31 March 2010

'Telegraph' Staff Still Clueless...

*sigh*

Seals have pups. Whales and dolphins have calves...

6 comments:

BabaMzungu said...

Furthermore, the "whale" is a killer whale, or orca, which is in fact part of the dolphin family, I believe.

JuliaM said...

It certainly is. So the 'Telegiraffe' missed a 'OMG! Cannibalism!' angle too...

microdave said...

I guess it's pretty much endemic. I rang our local press this morning to point out that both their editions have a spelling mistake in the classified section:

"Office Equipment And Stationary" - Well I suppose that desks and filing cabinets don't move around very much....

JuliaM said...

"..."Office Equipment And Stationary"..."

/facepalm

microdave said...

The receptionist I spoke to said " Oh dear, it's because they don't employ proof readers any more" I said that 30 years ago the bloke sitting at the linotype machine would have spotted such a basic error.

I recently found an old copy of the same newspaper in the roof. It was educational to read through it, and note the complete absence of stupid mistakes like this....

woman on a raft said...

Why oh why is nobody prepared to offer that Orca counselling for its anger-management isshoos.