Thomas Jefferson meets the Copy Editor

[gnomi]

stakebait's posting of excerpts from the Declaration inspired me to post this: http://www.luc.edu/faculty/owitte/copyedit/8bJeffer.pdf

It's a PDF, so it might need to be downloaded. But it's historically accurate (as far as I can tell) and is funny, in its own way. :-)

Yeah, I appear to be Spam Girl today. No real clue why.

Comments

[fernwithy.livejournal.com]

Neat link! I agree that the editing did well. But it's weirdly comforting to know that T.J. had the same spelling hang-up on "independent/ce" that it took me years to overcome. I'll still type "independance" and horrify myself from time to time.