Minimising typos is important to a newspaper. Publishing messy prose might undermine trust in our overall quality control – why trust our political reporting if we can’t spell Thérèse Coffey’s name? We want to provide accurate information, and typos can mutate meaning – a single letter can transform a fiend to a friend and a bowl to a bowel. Worse, a missing word can turn a holy text into a wicked one.
The Guardian is in the business of words, and we’re keen to avoid “idiosyncratic” spelling decisions. That’s why we built Typerighter, a tool that offers recommendations from our style guide into our content management system – Composer – and highlights errors well before the articles get in front of our readers.
