Readers called today to alert us to a profanity in the comic strip Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis.
Features copy editor Alan Fredman, equipped with a magnifying glass, brought it to my attention. Sure enough, he said, the f-bomb is…
St. Louis Post-Dispatch copy editor June Heath added a comment to yesterday’s blog item about using “brangle” in a headline — “O’Fallon, Mo., officials brangle anew” — at the top of Wednesday’s Metro section. Several staffers and a few readers unfamiliar…
“Since when are we using British archaic words in big honkin Metro headlines?”
That email question from a St. Louis Post-Dispatch staffer greeted me this morning. More significantly, several readers called us to complain that they weren’t familiar with the word…
