Oh no, I fully accept that what I'm doing certainly doesn't count as proofreading - just fixing the glaringly obvious faults which I happen to notice. I'm a lousy proof-reader anyway, because I'm a "speed reader" (not by choice); ie when I read I take in an "image" of the whole page, rather than read it line by line, and just completely overlook errors such as the one that you've just pointed out.
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