Re: John Moore’s Aug. 21 essay, “Copy desk keeps us clean�:
I appreciated your interesting article about the difficult and important role of copy editors. They've saved my bacon in the past. They may even have to fix this letter.
Then, wouldn't you know it, shortly after that article appeared, a misspelling sneaked by them. In the next-to-last paragraph of Beverly Kelley's thought-provoking column about grade inflation, Education Secretary Margaret Spellings’ name was shortened to Spelling.
But that doesn't dispel the value of your copy editors. Besides, maybe they occasionally leave misSpellings in as a test to see if the readers are alert — an excuse some of us have used for our mistakes.
— Richard Londgren, Thousand Oaks
(The writer adds that he is the author of "Communication by Objectives," published by Prentice-Hall, “with a few misspellings.� — Editor)
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