While the Chron librarian is fixing some spelling errors...
The Chronicle reader representative today describes the Chronicle's efforts to make sure a name is spelled right in the newspaper archives:
We've misspelled the name of Beyoncé's dad a lot. We did it again recently, prompting this missive from Melissa Aguilar, assistant managing editor of the Features Department: "Mathew Knowles spells his name with one t ... It's wrong in today's Star section. It's a name that we see all the time, so let's all memorize it."
Curious about just how many times we've misspelled it, I asked the ever reliable Chronicle librarian Sherry Adams. She found that, "we've spelled it Matthew about 26 times, or almost a quarter of the time when we've used his name. I've corrected 26 stories dated from Nov. 11, 1990 (a pre-Destiny's Child feature about the Knowles' Christmas celebration) to July 31, 2006. We've run 77 stories with it spelled correctly, dated from Aug. 24, 1997 to Sept. 5, 2006."
The newspaper still hasn't corrected this editorial that misspelled Warren Buffett's name repeatedly. Erroneous editorial page items seem to take much longer to correct than other errors.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 09/10/06 08:36 AM | Print | Comments (4)
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