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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