Jennifer Rowe Creative Services

This is how we (editors) do it

jenniferrowe — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 02:48:06 +0000

These sheets of cement board at might be preferred by the home improvement “pro’s”, but they’re definitely not the brand preferred by spelling pros.

Filed under: (spell) check, please!, mind your punctuation

Use it or…there might be misspellings

jenniferrowe — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:41:15 +0000

I know, I know, “NOBODY reads the terms of use,” right? No argument here. Still, two typos in the first three paragraphs? BOTH of these would’ve been caught by spellcheck.

If you’re working in a program that doesn’t have a spellcheck, try copying and pasting your writing into a program that does as your last pre-publishing step. It’s a quick and easy double-check that’s prevented errors for me dozens of times.

Filed under: (spell) check, please!

The question of ownership

jenniferrowe — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:25:21 +0000

When I saw this ad online, I was a little confused: “Is ‘homeownership’ a word now?” Sure enough, it is.

OK, so how about “carownership”? Nope. Dogownership? Storeownership? No and no. Hmm.

But there is crossownership (as in ‘across,’ not ‘crucifix’), coronership, and canonship.

Who decides what is and isn’t a word anyway?

Filed under: (spell) check, please!, Uncategorized

No more cute, please

jenniferrowe — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:21:04 +0000

Oh, “cute-out”? Is this a new fashion trend—clothing with less ‘cute’ and more…something else, perhaps? Maybe clothes for teens that fill the gap between clothes for kids (too young) and clothes for adults (too old)?

Nope, it’s only a typo. Shucks.

Filed under: (spell) check, please!, the power of proofreading

Time travel becomes a reality

jenniferrowe — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:00:26 +0000

This error message popped up while I was searching the Social Security Online site. I typed in “2010,” but apparently that doesn’t come after 1880.

Filed under: write what you mean