{"id":12489,"date":"2019-06-25T20:45:44","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T10:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=12489"},"modified":"2025-08-25T22:28:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T12:28:16","slug":"how-long-is-your-drink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2019\/06\/how-long-is-your-drink\/","title":{"rendered":"How long is your drink?"},"content":{"rendered":"

While there is an expression about having a long drink, length is not usually a measure of drinks. So I was surprised to see an ad for 300m of a soft drink in some recent junk mail!<\/p>\n

As always, the message is that proof reading is really important<\/a>. And it is best done by someone else or at a later time as proofing as you write has limitations.<\/p>\n

Of course, the person preparing the ad may have written 300ml but something happened at the design or printing stages – but that is why printing proofs also need to be checked carefully.<\/p>\n

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While there is an expression about having a long drink, length is not usually a measure of drinks. So I was surprised to see an ad for 300m of a soft drink in some recent junk mail! As always, the message is that proof reading is really important. And it is best done by someone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[1743,1742,1431],"class_list":["post-12489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-writing-examples","tag-drink","tag-length","tag-proofreading"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t