Here's a list of goofs found in published articles.  I shall add more as I see them.  Contributions from readers are welcome.  You may post them on the Message Board (if you are a member) or send them to me at zeemudge@hotmail.com.

I had a wool hat with flaps that covered my ears when I buttoned them under my chin. – Andy Rooney column in The Trenton Times, July 30, 2005.  (He must have looked odd with his ears buttoned under his chin.)

Graham Adams reports from South Africa that "the University College London offers a course in English grammar on the Internet, where they advise:  We regret that we cannot reply to grammatical queries."  Mr. Adams suggests that perhaps they can reply to ungrammatical queries.

"Publius," a contributer to our message boards, found this in "The Moral-Hazard Myth," an article by Malcolm Howell in the online edition of The New Yorker for 8/29/05:  Tooth decay begins, typically, when debris becomes trapped between the teeth and along the ridges and in the grooves of the molars. The food rots. It becomes colonized with bacteria. The bacteria feeds off sugars in the mouth and forms an acid that begins to eat away at the enamel of the teeth. Slowly, the bacteria works its way through to the dentin . . . . (our underlines).  These bacteria are "they," not "it," and they feed, form, and work; they do not "feeds," "forms," and "works."