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Advertisements: The quickest way to turn off a good segment of potential buyers is to make a stupid typographical or grammatical error in your ad...
Books: We admit, proofreading a paper of under ten pages can be quite a difficult task, and proofreading a novel of several hundred pages must be extremely so. Yet even then, some typos are just plain inexcusable...
News & Magazines: Because of the short deadlines involved, newspapers and magazines are often filled with proofreading errors which otherwise might have been quickly caught...
Software: Yes, it's true that many computer geeks don't have the slightest concerns about grammar and spelling. Just don't mention that to the Hall of Shame curator. :)
TV & Movies: Surprising as it may seem, TV and film are no more immune to the mistakes we love here at the Proofreader's Hall of Shame than any other medium.
Video Game Stuff: A separate category for video-game-related entries. Why, you ask? Well...why not?
The World Wide Web: Sure, the web is full of typos and grammatical errors. I can understand typos on personal pages... but on professional sites?!
Miscellaneous: Various and sundry things that wouldn't really fit into any of the other categories.
All Categories: List all categories on a single page.