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From Poynter, a "Florida socialite" is not the same thing as a "Florida socialist." But with the General Petraeus scandal we got the latter description of Jill Kelley, and because this was an AP story, it was spread around the Internet rather thoroughly.ġ0. Oh dear, from March 15. (As with this similar typo in 2011, when guns are not involved in this mistake, it's much funnier: "He SHIFTED!") See also, "Series Shits to Boston."ĩ. As depicted in the Guardian, Just My Typo, a British book released this year, has compiled numerous typos from times past, including that incident in which School was painted wrong on a street ( Shcool) and, er, this lovely mistake:Ĩ. Speaking of the former-ah, the scatological typo!-reports that someone has "shot himself" should always, always, always be proofread twice, given that the i and the o are right next door to each other. Remember that "herniated dick"? What about "sex-year"? Or this one.ħ. ( Santorum's pubic schedule, for instance?) Dirty joke typos, after all, are some of the best. This happens frequently, and it's always amusing. We are working to distribute corrected programs." (Unfortunately, they spelled egregious wrong, too.) But with pubic, they're in relatively solid company. The commencement brochures were reprinted and the school issued an apology, tweeting, "Our deepest apologies to our 2012 graduates for the eggregious typo in our program. And here it is in 2012, "A Most Unfortunate Commencement Typo" from the University of Texas, Austin (at right). It's an oldie but a goodie (again depending on one's perspective) that occurs again and again over the years. One great (or horrifying, depending on whether you're reading it or you created it) typo that occurs regularly is that awkward instance in which public is instead spelled without the l. He would like large sugary sodas, one would think. At right, an example from CBS New York.Ħ.
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Bloobmerg is a person who is fun to imagine. Who hasn'd tone that? Such is the case for the transposition of Bloomberg and Bloobmerg, which appeared throughout the year in various places to my great pleasure, largely because this Mr. It is terribly easy to transpose a couple of letters when typing quickly, and to fail to notice one's mistake. Who wants to vote for the president of the Untied States?ĥ. And still, our children have not learned. Then there were those intense discussions about Barack Obama's campaign punctuation. But there were many political typos this year, including Obama spelling Ohio wrong, Cory Booker spelling Barack wrong, Todd Akin having lots of trouble with the word you're, and Romney's Regan mishap, to name a few. Remember when the Romney campaign spelled America "Amercia" and reminded the world how much we need copy eidtors*? The mocking went viral. It is not the case that they never had sex.Ĥ. Vidal’s memoir Palimpsest, he and his longtime live-in companion, Howard Austen, had sex the night they met, but did not sleep together after they began living together. Vidal frequently joked that Vice President Al Gore was his cousin, genealogists have been unable to confirm that they were related. a crypto-Nazi, not a crypto-fascist, in a television appearance during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Take this one from back in January of 2012:Īn obituary on Gore Vidal on Wednesday included several errors. A couple of corrections from the New York Times this year were particularly special, not due to typos but for the unique and beautiful quality of the corrections themselves. The Toronto Sun issued a correction, as tweeted by Globe and Mail media reporter Steve Ladurantaye ( All very responsible and good, until they SPELLED CORRECTION WRONG.Ģ. This is the most meta and the most recent typo to have caught our attention. But without those mistakes, wouldn't online (and especially print) life be just a wee bit more boring? So, which were the best-most amusing, most mortifying, funniest, most cringeworthy, and most interesting-mistakes of the year? Herewith, our favorites.ġ. It happens to the best of us (fortunately we have the Twitter typo police hanging around to alert us to our embarrassing mistakes). And so do those corrections-not always typo-related-added to many a newspaper article when it turns out things weren't written exactly as they should be. Typos! We love them, we love to hate them.
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