Never rely on spell-check.
My excuse is that the magazine’s news section is huge, 8,600 words, assembled from more than 100 contributions.
My error was that I rushed this project, putting too much faith in the spell-checker. Yes, the red squiggles in Word alerted me to ones spelled wrong. But no alarm sounded when a wrong, correctly spelled word was used.
English has dozen of words with the same or similar pronunciation — but different spelling and greatly different meaning. But spell-check doesn’t care.
In my haste, I missed a correct-word misspelling … at the top of page one. According to that sentence, “the sun shown.”
Thanks to my beta reader, I’ve been shown that shown should have been shone.
Another set of eyes can help your work shine.
