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English translation: proofreader

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English term or phrase:proofreader
Selected answer:proofreader
Entered by: Roberta Anderson

10:49 Jun 24, 2004
English language (monolingual) [Non-PRO]
Other / spelling
English term or phrase: proofreader
I just need to know the spelling. I have found it in three different ways: proofreader, proof-reader, proof reader. I'd go for the all together version, but not 100% sure. Thanks in advance. BAmary
BAmary (X)
Canada
Local time: 03:02
proofreader
Explanation:
I have always seen it as proofreader.

Carolina
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Maria Otero
Spain
Local time: 09:02
Grading comment
Thanks, Maria! I agree with you and I just took a look to the Chicago Manual of Style and it is written "proofreader". Thanks to you all for your feedback. This site is great! Don't you think?
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5 +7proofreader
Maria Otero
4Proof Reader
Ramesh Madhavan


  

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proofreader


Explanation:
I have always seen it as proofreader.

Carolina

Maria Otero
Spain
Local time: 09:02
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
Grading comment
Thanks, Maria! I agree with you and I just took a look to the Chicago Manual of Style and it is written "proofreader". Thanks to you all for your feedback. This site is great! Don't you think?

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Rantes
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agree  Elena Sgarbo (X)
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agree  Maya Gorgoshidze
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agree  Anjo Sterringa: proofread is the verb according to the Collins, alt. proof-read..... But I have never seen anything else than proofreader either.
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agree  Saleh Chowdhury, Ph.D.
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agree  Xenia Wong
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agree  Asghar Bhatti
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Proof Reader


Explanation:
Language use changes constantly and what was wrong once becomes right later, if more and more people use it! If that is not enough for us translaters, we have to deal with English-English, American English, European English, African English, Indian English and my latest woe: Chinese English! However, if I was a purist, I will use "Proof Reader". Proof= What comes from the (printing) Machine. Reader= One who reads (and corrects) it.

Ramesh Madhavan
Local time: 12:32
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in TamilTamil
PRO pts in category: 16
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