Proofreading Philly

Proofreading Philly tries to capture typos, wordos, and all other kinds of grammatical mistakes that we see around the city. But we need your help! Email photos to us from your computer or your phone, and show the city that you care about good grammar.

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Oh man. Where can we begin with this poster? When reader AS submitted it to us last month (you can see the full version here), we weren't sure which error was the best! Could it be the unnecessary use of quotation marks? (Okay, so putting "Jesus Christ" in quotes is fine if you're having a dude dressed as J.C. come to your party—but the quotes around the DJ's name are completely unnecessary.) Or could it be the unnecessary and inconsistent punctuation (British—outside the quotes—for the first period; American—inside the quotes—for the second)? Or could it just be the awesome wordo in the last line?

Or maybe it's just the combination of all of them that makes us gleeful over this particular submission. Yeah. That must be it.

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