Mistakes are Funny, Right?

First the comic:

Maybe you have to be a tech writer or English teacher to spot the mistake. “Proofreader” is one word, so it should be hyphenated in the comic.

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So the writer changed it a bit to make it officially not redundant. See the caption under the picture.

“Humming” instead of “hemming.” (You know that “hemming and hawing” means indecisive, right?) I guess suggesting a redundancy and then not actually doing it is humorous…

One word in the lesson: couplet.

I was hoping for a series of comics about poetry, but it didn’t happen, so here’s the one:

A couplet is two related lines in a poem, especially if the two lines stand alone.

At least the way I was taught it’s mispronounced. Read the comic caption out loud:

How did you pronounce the last word? The cartoonist wants you to pronounce it “air.” I was taught the correct pronunciation is “rrr.” Maybe you could get away with saying “error.” What do you think?

Puns are supposed to be bad, right? Well, this one’s about grammar, so I feel compelled to post it. Sorry, no lesson.

—Except maybe to point out that all puns are linguistic in some way. this one uses homonyms.