And give help headline writers! The case for bringing back professional proof readers! #TheGuardian #TheGrauniad #grammar

@JenSurname

When I see #TheGrauniad, I always think of @nalsa

Also, every time I call it #TheGrauniad, I have a little smile to myself and feel a little bit bad. Because in the days when that name was most fitting, I was still at school and the bloke over the road (“Uncle Harry”) was a proofreader for #TheGuardian in Manchester.

He’s long gone now, but I think of him every time I have to spell ‘necessary’, because he taught me a #mnemonic so I didn’t misspell it, and I say it in my head every time I write that word to this day, more than 40 years later.

There was a line in the opening paragraph of this article that was so good, I was going to quote it. But the more I read, the more brilliant it became and there’s so much to quote, I’d better just post the article. It’s very much well worth a read.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/23/rishi-sunak-government-prime-minister?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

#TheGrauniad #MarinaHyde