NYT GoofUp
Mark A Mandel
mam at THEWORLD.COM
Tue Mar 19 22:47:48 UTC 2002
[James Mullan]
#> #Pity the subbie didn't catch this grammatical goofup before it made the
#> #print version ;-)
[Mark Mandel, round I]
#> "Subbie"?
[Jim Landau]
#"Subbie" is short for "sub-editor", the British name for what in the US is
#called a "copy editor". On a newspaper the copy editor/sub-editor reads and
#corrects all material before it goes into print, and also writes the
#headlines.
[Mark II*]
Thanks.
* Hey, I can do that, but don't youse guys start thinking you can get
away with it.
-- Mark A. Mandel
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