Not the copy editors at the Star Tribune, if today's Census Bureau table is any indication.
I can almost believe it was a joke. Maybe someone was thinking, "We're making a table, part of which will show what percent of each county's population has graduated from high school or has a GED. Wouldn't it be funny if we spelled one of the words in that column wrong? Really, really wrong?"
If only it were so. But I'm afraid not.
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Who's Got a High School Diploma?
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Since I'm a poor speller and an employee of a major metropolitan newspaper's graphics department, I won't comment on the main point of your post.
I just wanted to say that your photos of newspaper graphics, stories and ads are always distinctive.
It's because of the play of what I assume is daylight and either incandescent or florescent light. The two kinds of light duke it out right there on the newsprint. It's weird how the eye doesn't notice this -- until the scene is run through a camera.
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