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William Crawley | 15:35 UK time, Friday, 28 July 2006

Okay, I put my hands up. In a post on Wednesday, on the 150th anniversary of Bernard Shaw's birth, I had so much fun at the expense of the Irish Times leader writer who confused Heartbreak House with Hearkbreak Hotel that I neglected to speelcheck my own piece and misspelt Pygmalion as Pigmalion. Mark Adair, ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Northern Ireland's ever-vigilant Secretary and Head of Public Policy, spotted the lapse. I could try to disguise 'Pigmalion' as a deliberately Shavian re-spelling; instead, I shall simply advertise here for a sub-editor and thank Mark for being gracious enough not to mock me with a well-deserved written comment.

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  • 1.
  • At 07:06 PM on 28 Jul 2006,
  • wrote:

Hey, could I apply for the job? I could help you "speelcheck"! I am a freelance sub-editor.

  • 2.
  • At 12:44 AM on 29 Jul 2006,
  • sam wrote:

Um, I think that speelcheck thing was meant to irony Mrs Fife. Any freelance comedians out there?

  • 3.
  • At 06:30 PM on 29 Jul 2006,
  • wrote:

I could spell check or I think the computers have spell checks on their modems.

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