In the Herald:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12095896
I find:
"This pain-staking work eventually turned out several surprising discoveries."
You wonder what caused that.
In the Herald:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12095896
I find:
"This pain-staking work eventually turned out several surprising discoveries."
You wonder what caused that.
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Rogue software.
Plesse igmore amd axxept applogies in adbance fir anu typos
I'll be planting two more fruit trees soon, I will also be doing pain-staking work
It's the Herald. Is anyone really surprised?
xpd:
While on subject of Herald... WTF is with the "eruption in Auckland" articles every 3 months ?
Trying to drive down house prices by making Auckland a less attractive place to live perhaps?
xpd:
While on subject of Herald... WTF is with the "eruption in Auckland" articles every 3 months ?
It's real, see halfway through https://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=48&topicid=236234
The volcanic field is young and active
Geektastic: Lack of proof reading.
Correct, Herald and Stuff perform no proof reading nor spell checking.
On the matter of the OP: I did wonder if this originated from poor subediting or software in relation to splitting (and hyphenating) words at the end of a newspaper line - of course, if this was the case, it should have been split as "pains-taking", as discussed in this blog post: https://howcanisaythat.wordpress.com/2013/06/24/painstaking-pain-staking/
But that's not a legit excuse because, looking at the electronic 'print' copy of today's Herald in PressReader, it's not split across two lines...
My favourite hyphenation issue I've spotted here on GZ a few times is the lack of one in 're-sign': re-signing and resigning have slightly different meanings!
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