I am generally a mild mannered person. I venture to say most of my friends think I am nice and fairly easy-going. But a few things do tend to make me angry and one of them is anonymous criticism. If you've spotted an error in something I've published, please tell me, I can take it. I realized long ago that I am not perfect. But tell me to my face, or at least sign your name to the note.
Today at work I received an envelope in the mail addressed to THE PROOFREADER followed by the church address, all in large printed caps. When I opened the envelope I found one half of a page cut from the newsletter we mailed out last week with one word circled and the "correct" spelling written in the margin. Nothing else, no note, no name, certainly no return address on the envelope. In case you care, the word was 'flyers' - my spelling. My anonymous critic wrote it as 'fliers'. My dictionary shows both spellings as correct, with neither preferred.
After I calmed down, I decided that it was actually pretty exciting that she/he found only one error in a sixteen page, densely written newsletter.
I feel much better now.
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