[Baldwin]

It can be one word: "Time to get underway!" but "under way" is also correct. (Though having it as one word is closer to the original Dutch word.)

God bless good copy editors. I just had a story published that I'd already revised three or four times. But when it finally got in front of a professional editor, he suggested about six more minor changes -- and they were all good suggestions. (There weren't any spelling or grammatical errors, of course, but there were a few awkward spots.)

I read an entire novel that had obviously never been edited in any meaningful sense. It'd been run through spell check -- and it was chock-full of homophones. I bought it through Barnes & Noble, but I think it was essentially self-published.

It's remarkable how sometimes an obvious factual error passes in front of many people without being caught. Because Dean Koontz isn't noteably bright and has little grasp of science (besides not being exactly a great writer), he thought that the human brain weighs six pounds. He put that mistake into dialogue in his crappy novel Phantoms, which was later made into a crappy movie. So a mistake that any fifth grader should be able to correct remained intact from the author, through the book editor, through whoever read the book at the production company, through the adaptation into a screenplay, into the shooting script, past the director, and out of Ben Affleck's mouth.