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When I am Copyeditor General ...: Cute animals will not be used as distractions

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Cute animals will not be used as distractions

From the homepage of April 18's Guardian website:



Awww! How adorable is that otter? The nose! The ears! The whiskers!

Waaaait a second: what's that in the sentence above?

Copyeditor General's ruling: If you insist on having typos on your homepage, you shouldn't try and distract your readers with images of furry animals. What is this, Cute Overload?

Update: Not long after posting this, the offending typo was corrected. Probably by someone unaffected by the soul-owning stare of a baby otter.

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