When I originally switched to WordPress, one of my goals was to start blogging ahead of time, so I could write a post on Tuesday night and have it posted on Thursday at around 10:30 PM, around the time when I usually post. That’s because I usually go out on Thursdays.
I don’t think there will be too much of value in terms of posts tonight. The photo uploader is giving me problems today, and we all know that photos are the cornerstone of this blog.
At any rate, I think it’s worth telling a story from my friend, Beth, who currently lives in Texas but is a Massachusetts native, like me, and recently spent time at home.
She stopped by the Linens-N-Things in our hometown, Reading. She then spotted an egregious error on an advertisement.
She took a few pictures for me with her cell phone. (Thought I’ve had my cell phone for well over two years — I’m thinking of getting an iPhone this summer once the new model comes out — I still haven’t figured out how to send picture messages to my email.)
On the advertisements for Linens-N-Things, they listed a word of which I had never heard.
Afterall.
As in, “It’s time for you to buy some dishes, afterall.”
Or, “We need to buy a rice cooker and an omelette cooker to fool all of our houseguests, afterall.”
AFTERALL is not a word, last time I checked, Linens-N-Things.
How could you be so ignorant?
Is nobody checking your work?
Come on, now. It’s not that hard to run spellcheck. Hell, if you ran this advertisement in Microsoft Word, originally, you would have the telltale squiggly red line underneath the word! There is no excuse for spelling the word like that.
I keep worrying…I keep thinking that my efforts are futile…
The Grammar Vandal 
Linens-N-Things filed Chapter 11 a few weeks ago. If there was a quality control resource (like a copy editor), they were probably shown the door to cut costs.
She took a few pictures for me with her cell phone. (Thought [Though] I’ve had my cell phone for well over two years — I’m thinking of getting an iPhone this summer once the new model comes out — I still haven’t figured out how to send picture messages to my email.)