I really love reading The Daily Herald, and I still read the hard copies delivered to my home each day. I think your staff has many talented reporters and writers who provide excellent news coverage. But like others who have written in, the typos and/or misuse of common words are detrimental to the quality of your product. It bothers me seeing repeated mistakes like using the contraction “it’s” when the context of the sentence requires the possessive “its.” But on Feb. 20 there was an error I’ve never seen before — the possessive “theirs” became a contraction (?) by spelling it “their’s.” Also, a big headline said “Hold your peace to keep the peace.” If one would look up this phrase online, the correct wording would be “Hold your piece to keep the peace.” Many of the paper’s mistakes are found in the body of articles; but when a mistake is printed as a headline using large letters, it’s impossible not to notice.

I’ve often wondered about joining a volunteer proofreaders’ group to provide services to companies that can’t afford hiring more employees to handle certain tasks. I guess I hold up newspapers as living examples of what and how to write; but in today’s world, it’s sad to realize many people probably never even notice the mistakes, nor feel any consternation seeing them in print.

Sally Good

Lake Stevens