August 21, 2008
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.
What bothered us about this photo, submitted to us by Jen Oliver, wasn't that "Red-Headed" and "B-52" were both missing hyphens. What bothered us is that whoever wrote the shot menu at Jager's in Old City had apparently never taken a history class.
A bonus Proofreading Philly submission after the jump!
This shot wasn't taken in Philadelphia, but it was taken by a Philadelphian on vacation. Sarcasmom recently returned from La Jolla, CA, and sent us this note: "The sign was on the side of an ice cream truck that was by the beach. It was playing the same annoying tune the trucks here play, but the truck was brown. Like UPS brown." We're not sure if we have more of a problem with the wordo or with the notion of a brown ice cream truck that doesn't seem to sell ice cream!
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Well, to be fair, they may have had their minds erased... and really, if you're on heroin you'd probably not realize what form it takes...
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Shouldn't that be "whomever" wrote? Or am I wrong.
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"Who" does what to "whom." So in this case, I believe "whoever" is right. Anybody out there with a ruling?
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I think misspelled "liqiud heroin" is particularly amusing. I guess copyediting was just really not on their top-ten priority list.
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The way I read it, "whoever" is correct here, as it's being used in the subjective case: "whoever wrote."
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On the Sweet Eats truck the word except instead of accept. Probably someone who is not a native English-speaker.