Each of such mistakes are ugly, no?
Posted by bradburg on May 27, 2008
Newsweek, May 26, 2008, page 43: “Each of the 300 arriving ninth graders are randomly assigned to one of the houses. . . . ” [Italics added.] You’d think writers and editors could remember all the way back to five or six words earlier, wouldn’t you? It seems to me that major publications simply did not contain such elementary-school errors, years ago (of course, that could be my own aging recollections failing me).
