Yes, they certainly are needed

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Advertisement in the Boston Globe, October 30, 2006. Page C5. All spelling, line breaks, and capitalization as original.

SUB TEACHERS
NEEDED
Associates Degree only Qualifacation
Experience a plus, but
NOT NESSESSARY.
Immediate openings.

I wish I were kidding.

Comments

[adrian-turtle.livejournal.com]

When I was 17, and the snark was running high, I phoned the office of the Detroit Free Press.

"Hi, I'm calling about the job opening you have, for a copyeditor?"
"You must be mistaken. We don't need a copyeditor."
"Oh yes you do!"

Not surprisingly, he hung up on me.

[cindywrites.livejournal.com]

I'm going to be laughing about that, all night. Ha!

[happyfunpaul.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they sure did! I almost got used to the Freep inserting an apostrophe into the possessive "its" or using the wrong there/ their/ they're-- it happened so often-- but they really threw me when, circa 1994, an article used "weather" to mean "whether". Oi.