Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy

Have publishers fired their copyeditors? In the latest Eve Dallas book from J. D. Robb, Dallas is discussing the victim of a murder and what was taken from her body: “It’s professional, but the jewelry’s amatuer hour. So why? Just because you can? Just because you want? Souveniers, mementos?”

Amateur and souvenir are not even homophone errors; an automated spell-checker would have caught them. Aaargh!

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  1. I knew of a person who was a Certified Respiratory Therapist who took the rings off of dead people in the hospital…
    Sometimes the truth is harder to swallow than fiction…

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