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[QUOTE="blmblm, post: 4221606"]
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*Oh* yes.  EIther mistakes of this kind have become more common in
recent years -- *even in prose that one would think had been reviewed
by someone with copyediting experience* -- or I'm noticing them more.

You think?  I sometimes wonder if some people's brains are wired to
care about spelling, and others' aren't.  I'm in the former group,
and indeed find that unless I know how a word is spelled it's somehow
not real to me.  I don't have that problem with words whose spelling
I know but whose pronunciation I'm unsure of.  I wonder, though,
whether there are people for whom exactly the reverse is true.

I also wonder whether reading voraciously even helps, given that more
and more one can't rely on published prose to be correct.

Sigh.

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"Less" or "fewer"?  (You probably do mean "less", but the widespread
practice of using the former to mean the latter means that one can't
really be sure, maybe.)

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