Here’s Your Proof – really!

Do you know that a misplaced comma or misspelled word can radically alter the meaning of a sentence? For example, a simple hyphen creates a huge difference between “An American journalist encounters a man eating crocodile in the Australian outback,” and “An American journalist encounters a man-eating crocodile in the Australian outback.”

We believe the following text could have been enhanced by Here’s Your Proof – proofread carefully to if you any words out!

From the movie review page of a television guide:
A murder spirals into a menagerie of sinister motivations and dark betrayals.
Well, not so much a menagerie as a mélange.

From the www:
“The groom is one of our most solid and influential young businessmen. As an employee at J. A. Smith’s grocery store he has well in hand all the clerical work and it is a known fact that he is the most painstaking and accurate bookkeeper in town. He has exemplary character and is a young man of established standing among the best circles of the town.”
A painstaking and accurate bookkeeper of exemplary character, no doubt, but was his a happy wedding?

From an advertising flyer:
The Superstore unequalled in size, unmatched in variety, unrivalled inconvenience.
Just one space is all it needs!

From a recruitment journal:
This is an opportunity for companies to practice what they preach and kill two birds with one stone.
Really covers all possibilities!

And finally, some newspaper headlines:

• Typhoon Rips Through Cemetery; Hundreds Dead
• Two Convicts Evade Noose, Jury Hung
• Heat Wave Linked to Temperatures

Perhaps the sub-editors were having off-days.