Regret the Error

The curtains don’t match the carpet*

Posted on July 20, 2009, 8:00 am, by Craig Silverman, under Newspapers, Uncategorized.

A reader sent this image of a photo/photo caption mismatch in the Toronto Star:

This is the image it was eventually replaced with:

*Correction: The original headline on this post read "The curtains don’t match the drapes." That’s redundant. It has been corrected.

http://gphemsley.wordpress.com/ Gordon P. Hemsley

The reason you had that slip of redundancy is because the phrase is “the carpet doesn't match the drapes”. First, you used the wrong C word. Then, you corrected the correct word, instead of the incorrect word.
http://gphemsley.wordpress.com/ Gordon P. Hemsley

The reason you had that slip of redundancy is because the phrase is “the carpet doesn't match the drapes”. First, you used the wrong C word. Then, you corrected the correct word, instead of the incorrect word.