Awk-ward

Our spell-check is smokin' and we still make lotsa mistakes. But some clangers are, to use Jon Stewart's catchphrase "Awk-ward". One was the all-staff email from the human relations department accompanying a notice about changes at Quill and Quire that welcomed Attila Berki as Associate Publisher. The accompanying e-mail referred to him as "her". Another was a recent issue of Canada's SOHO Business, a quasi-magazine (or should that be meta-logue?) distributed through Staples stores contained a story by Peter Urs Bender; the byline gave his personal website for comments, failing to note that he had died last March.