Ilene Bauer Poet Rhyme

Oversights

It must be tough to edit,
Searching calmly for mistakes,
Whether spelling or grammatical,
That every author makes.

Still, it bothers me when reading
And some errors have slipped by,
Causing me to wonder, how much
Did this edit-person try?

First an idiom I noticed – 
“Chock it up” instead of “chalk.”
Just to clarify, I Googled;
I was justified to balk.

Next, a character is asked,
At someone’s house, to shed his shoes.
Yet, upon a piano’s pedals,
Those same sneakers he does use.

You might think it’s nits I’m picking
But such errors hit a nerve
For the oversights of editors
We readers don’t deserve.

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Maurice Rigoler February 20, 2019 at 4:31 PM Actually, I find writing errors hilarious at times. I worked for years for a small printing company and often had to do the editing myself. After seeing so many words fly by one's eyes, mistakes are easily overlooked. I recall one which got printed on a food ad announcing chicken on sale, but it said "children on sale"! I didn't get fired. / M

Jan Allison February 19, 2019 at 3:22 PM I try not to make typoes and gramatical erroz but sumtimez my smell chequer dose note wirk :-) I checked my comet to ewe and its prefect:-) hugs Jan xx Ilene Bauer February 20, 2019 at 3:12 PM ha! this cracked me up, jan! i wasn't really referring to this site but a novel i was reading. it seems as if there shouldn't be such errors slipping through, but i guess editors are human and, as such, bound to miss things...

John Gondolf February 19, 2019 at 2:57 PM Most spelling mistakes I just assume are typos because I do the same myself but the ones that bother me are like when people use "your" for "you're." Still I try to ignore them and focus on the content of the writing. Well written, Ilene.