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This article was first published in the March/April, 2011, issue of SfEP’s magazine Editing Matters.

This article was edited by Richard at Wordy at 1:05 pm CET. The edit took 35 minutes and cost €8.42. Richard found over 40 errors in the text — all of them preventing me from…

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