November 10th, 2015

It’s called “proofreading”, give it a shot why don’t you, episode 2

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

A Reuters article from last week includes the sentence

That annual regulatory filing also introduced a so-called “anti-pledging” provision that prevented further loans to company directors, executives and employees using stock as collaterol.

“Collaterol”?

Now, sure, this is an article about a pharmaceutical company, so maybe “collaterol” looks like an expensive new drug.

But still. Four authors, a contributor, two editors, and two updates later, and still nobody has fixed it.

Category
Old New Thing
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Non-Computer

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Raymond Chen

Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.

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