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You'd think someone would have noticed and fixed it, wouldn't you? I miss
having an editor at my current job. I'm pretty good, but no one is perfect
and there are things I miss. Today I discovered I'd forgotten the
apostrophe in the phrase "nurses workstation". ARGH!
(For the record: it should have read "nurses' workstation".)
On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 11:05 AM Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>
wrote:
> For reasons that are unimportant here, I was looking at an OSHA
> publication, https://www.osha.gov/Publications/3120.html
>
> In that document I noticed FIVE uses of a strange word "inpidual" where
> "individual" would have been expected. "New piece of governmentese," I
> thought. Further research showed that other government documents have
> similar problems. For example, where "division" might be expected,
> "pision" appears. The problem seems to go back as far as 2014 at least.
> E.g.: https://www.dol.gov/owcp/dlhwc/dbaallemployer9-30-13.htm
>
> I doubt there is any way to make money correcting this blunder, which
> must
> have been caused by a well-meaning person's wholesale replacement of
> <div>
> with <p>, or rather div with p, in many documents. If there were, it
> would
> already have happened. Maybe I should send it on to Scott Adams, who
> might
> find some use for it.
>
> Stop the presses! It just gets worse! Two more inpiduals here, from 2011:
>
>https://www.pacificjustice.org/press/rulings-on-health-care-mandate-set-up-supreme-court-showdown/
>
> Who writes this stuff?
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