Don't Trust Your Spell Check (Lite): The Proofreading Tests

Proofreading is a necessary part of any content publishing process. It's the last line of quality control.Poor attention to detail can be disastrous. Wince at the US high school, which had a sign inviting parents to a ‘laeping to literacy night’. Pity the department store that proudly advertised its grand opening in ‘Febuary 2010’.A spell check would have caught these particular errors. But it won’t catch every goof and gaffe. It wouldn’t have objected to the way a Baltimore news channel once subtitled Prince Harry as the ‘Prince of Whales’. Neither would it spot the four errors in the ‘Simone painted his finger the boy and smiled wicked smile’.In this 'Lite' edition of Don't Trust Your Spell Check, you'll find 25 tricky proofreading tests to help you develop and improve your content checking skills. Some of these tests are short passages mined with a cluster of hard-to-spot spelling errors. Others are longer text excerpts, where there’s only one grammatical goof to spot.The question can you beat them?