Author's note
How I wish this page didn't exist. To my proofreaders (paid and unpaid), I thank you that there are not more errors in this very demanding text, and I take full responsibility for the few that crept through (and particularly the 'clanger' I added at the last minute).
To anyone out there who has found an error that isn't listed here, please do notify us at info[at]nakedize.com. The same goes for queries or suggested improvements.
Needless to say, all errors listed on this page will be corrected in the next edition of the book.
Simon Hertnon
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Error |
Correction |
Comments |
| 14 |
...by wisely choosing which words you choose. |
...by wisely choosing your words. |
How awful and ironic! A last minute change for the worse. |
| 29 |
PUNCTATION |
PUNCTUATION |
This misspelling made it past everyone and, we later discovered, had actually gone unnoticed in the original seminar booklet for years. If you're wondering about the spell-checker, it turns out that punctation is a word ('the marking or indentation of a puncture'). |
| 43 |
In turn, the en-dash's functions (as listed overleaf) are carried out by the hyphen. |
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Somehow I managed to get my en-dashes and hyphens muddled in relation to British versus American English. They are distinct in both variants and this sentence should be deleted. |
| 44 |
(the hyphen in British English) |
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As above, this parenthetical phrase is wrong so put a line through it. |
| Bibliography |
1979 |
1997 |
Incorrect publication date of the Painless Grammar book. |
| About the author |
Victory University of Wellington |
Victoria University of Wellington |
Unnoticed till 2011! Not a bad substitute though — Victory! |