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The text is selected from a job description for a proofreader stolen from somewhere on the web. Various typos were inserted in the starting block. This is probably the closest to a real-world situation of the three final problems - the kind of editing job I'd be doing (using /bin/vi) while staring at the terminal doing my "day job". 
APROOFREADERTYPICALYREADSAMANUSCRIPTAFTERITHASBEENEDITEDANSETINTOTYPE
CORRECTINGANYERORSOFGRAMMERWORDUSAGEORSENSETHEEDITORMAYHAVEMISSEDMARKING
ERRORSINTRODUCEDYBTHEPRINTERANDSOMETIMESCOMPARINGTHEPAGESTOTHECOPYEDITOR
COPYMAKINGSURECORRECTIONSHAVEBEENPROPORLYMADEIFYOUHAVEPATEINCEAGREAT
OPTICFORDETAILANDAPASSIONFORREADINGYOUMAYENJOYPROOFREADING

APROOFREADERTYPICALLYREADSAMANUSCRIPTAFTERITHASBEENEDITEDANDSETINTOTYPE
CORRECTINGANYERRORSOFGRAMMARWORDUSAGEORSENSETHEEDITORMAYHAVEMISSEDMARKING
ERRORSINTRODUCEDBYTHEPRINTERANDSOMETIMESCOMPARINGTHEPAGESTOTHECOPYEDITORS
COPYMAKINGSURECORRECTIONSHAVEBEENPROPERLYMADEIFYOUHAVEPATIENCEAGREAT
EYEFORDETAILANDAPASSIONFORREADINGYOUMAYENJOYPROOFREADING


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