GOTCHA

Please tell me this (“Dept. of Grevious Errors,” April 12) was all part of an elaborate joke, where you actually planned placing a misspelled word in the bold title preceding a series of readers’ letters criticizing your copy editor’s grievous (yes, grievous) factual error, as a means of testing people like me, who have nothing better to do with their lives than to rejoice in checking for stuff like this.

DAVID MACARAY, Rowland Heights

Yes.--Ed.