Thursday, April 25, 2013

Best Spelling of the Day Award

I frequently am called upon, on behalf of my clients, to edit something for publication written by a non-professional writer.  I actually enjoy doing this -- keeping their voice in their words, while keeping it readable.

I just came across this:

fastenating stories

I pronounced it "fass-ten-ating stories" in my head as I read and I'm like what?? Then I realized he meant "fasten-ating" and of course fascin and fasten are pronounced the same so I guess his spelling makes sense.

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