The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time

摘要

Copyeditors and other grammar geeks who cringe at public displays of bad punctuation, rest assured that we are not "alone." Two recent volumes take us on a tour of bad signage across the country. For editors like me, these books fulfill an armchair fantasy to scale billboards and save humanity from misguided quotation marks and other typos. Bethany Keeley, a PhD candidate in rhetoric, has spent seven years blogging about "unnecessary" quotation marks; she recently turned her blog into a full-color photo book that had me chuckling from cover to cover. She and her blog fans contributed photos and cheeky captions.