I propose that from now on book publishers appoint a spell-check editor whose sole responsibility is to not allowing spelling and grammatical howlers to make it into the published book. The spell-check editor should be named prominently inside the front of the book along with the technical reviewer. Geeks don't like compilation errors in code, and they don't like them in books.
On page 11 of Being Geek: The Software Developer's Career Handbook is the following: ... those who are closest to the code are imminently [sic] qualified ...
With all the automated spell checkers and grammar checkers available, such compilation-like errors should be rare ... for all intensive purposes [my favorite Malaprop].
