The Baker's Dozen

Dear Readers,

For the past forty-three months, I have been writing this blog in order to defend the English language.

I hope that you have enjoyed reading it and perhaps you have learned something from it.  As a kind of culmination, I offer to you a simple "test."  Below is a flyer I acquired and upon reading it, I found 13 errors (spelling, grammar and punctuation).  I challenge you to find all thirteen.  The answers are at the bottom of this page.  Good luck!

ANSWERS

Column 1
  1.  Balboa Blvd does not have a period at the end of the abbreviation.
  2.  All Regular Price Shoes - it should be "priced."

Column 2
  3.  The quote marks around the first paragraph are not necessary.
  4.  On the very first line, each word of the name of the store should be capitalized:  The Walking Shoe.
  5.  Continuing on the very first line, there should be a comma after the word Shoe.
  6.  In the second paragraph, there should be a comma after the word friendly.
  7.  Also in that paragraph, the word knowledgable is misspelled (correct:  knowledgeable).
  8.  In the third paragraph, the word specialize needs to be "specializes."
  9.  And in this paragraph, there should be a hyphen between wide and width.
 10. On the first line of the last paragraph, the word "If" should be lower case:  "if"
 11. The next word in this line, "your," needs to be "you're."
 12. Again in this paragraph, instead of a period after the word feet, there should be a comma.

Column 3
 13.  Toward the bottom of the list of shoe brands, Dr Scholls needs to have a period after the abbreviation Dr.


SCORING
13/13 = 100%
12/13 =   92
11/13 =   85
10/13 =   77
  9/13 =   69
  8/13 =   61
  7/13 =   54
  6/13 =   46
  5/13 =   38
  4/13 =   31
  3/13 =   23
  2/13 =   15
  1/13 =     8%


So, Readers, how did you do?   A+, B-, C?  If you received lower than an A, maybe you need to re-read all forty-three previous posts.  I thank you for letting me offer my expertise.