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Originally Posted by HarryT
That will find a lot of things, but it's still very difficult to spot errors like, say "comer" instead of "corner", because if you see something on the page like "There was a tall cupboard standing in the comer", your brain will probably read that last word as "corner", since that's what you expect to see.
Increasing the font size can make it easier to spot this type of error, but it's still very difficult to find them.
I was reading a book recently which repeatedly used the word "dock" in ways which didn't seem to make sense, and it took a while before the penny dropped that the word should really be "clock"  . |
But the way I figure it, if you have two people doing this (one reading and one proofing), they are bound to pick up errors like
comer instead of
corner.