Proofreaders Prints

"Are we their yet?"

"You're going to have to submit to peer review eventually, Bradshaw!"

"Bad dog! I've told you to always proofread."

A Copy Editor and His Dog

Punctuation Police

Someone who knows apostrophes

"Your usually vicious sarcasm is weak. Go pump some irony."

Smith Academy. A Tradition of Excellense.

'Hello, Acme signs? This is the Berger & Coles Law Office...'

Personnel - "This letter of recommendation is full of misspellings!"

'Who teaches apostrophe usage?'

"Baxter...about this report...your punctuation, spelling and grammar are perfect. No one can understand it!"

Contemporary English Lesson: The Cat was Sat on the Mat.

"No—You're thinking dog years—Editor years are twice as many."

Shakespeare loved a grammar joke

"The man who invented autocorrect died from the corona vibrator."

'What does it say, Dad?'

Quality Control

"Drop everything, Dominic. I need you to proof this for blasphemy."

'Don't laugh Ms. Newborn, but I want you to proof this for 'accuracy'.'

'Don't worry. I'm not charging you for the extra lettering.'

"Confounded spell checker... never catches anything."

Ironing Punctuation

One of the failed candidates for the copyrighters job wants to know 'wat was rong with his applicashun'.

'Do you always have to shout? Well? Do you? Huh?'

Editor.

'Do it write the first time.'

I have taken over Sarahs body!

'No spell-check?? And you call this HEAVEN??'

Writer Services: We fix plot holes.

'Thank god for the spellchecker!'

"What can I say? I was an English major."

Publisher to writer: 'It was a great read, except I collided with run-on sentences, tripped over broken English and got knocked about by a dangling participle.'