It wasn’t just an extra “n” before; it was a completely different word, which would seem to indicate you didn’t know the correct word.

That’s the way writing works.

Some bad writers can’t be helped.

P.S.: Many newspapers don’t have five people looking at an article. Sorry to burst your bubble on that one.

You see there are not 300,000 copies of Pat’s diatribe on driveways and in single copy boxes around town to immortalize his faux pas, there is only the “permalink” and it, as you now can see, is just fine.

Pat, yes its true that there are those journalists that can’t be helped. In a few weeks I’ll start a new job where part of my task will be to try to help them anyway. I have no doubt, however, that within even in the most staunch and resistant luddite journalist there are skills that are very much worth taking advantage of because our “worlds” do in fact overlap.

If some journalists can’t be helped, maybe they can still help us.

If, in the course of my writing, the worst mistake I ever make is putting an extra n in a word (while still keeping it a real word), then I will be a happy writer. Have you ever been a copy editor before?

There is a reason many papers have five different people look at a story. Everyone makes mistakes. It’s called being human.

But I’m not in a writing business. I’m in the news business.

Those people show they have no business writing and no business being in an industry that supports writing.