Typos

Mitt Romney Will Protect WHAT?!

Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Video, Typos, Mitt Romney 2012, Mitt Romney, Typo, Mitt Romney Campaign Website, Mitt Romney Fail, Grammar, Mitt Romney Guns, Comedy News

Mitt Romney may be pro-guns, but an egregious error on his campaign website indicates that he's anti-copyediting. First noticed by Facebook user Ha...

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The Mobile Signature: 'Please excsue typoo's'

Sean X | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Business Practices, Digital Communication, Email Signature, Typos, Mobile Communications, Email Etiquette, Technology News

I am a communication purist, in that I believe the most important aspect of communication is understanding by the recipient, not precision in its delivery. However, you must ask yourself. How does a signature line serve me? It too is to provide communication. So be careful.

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Unfortunate Text Placement

Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Unfortunate Text Placement, Video, Bikini, Typos, Funny Newspaper, Funny Pictures, Bathing Suit, Funny Typos, Pics & Giggles, Comedy News

With Summer fast approaching, it makes sense that a newspaper would want to print a feature on finding that perfect bikini, but the Pittsburgh Tribune...

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Big Bank Sued Over Multimillion Dollar Typo

Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Kai Herbert, JPMorgan Chase, Video, Typos, Jpmorgan, Bank of America, Business News, Jpmorgan Lawsuit, Kai Herbert Jpmorgan Chase, Business News

Let this be a lesson in the importance of proofreading. One trader, Kai Herbert, is suing JPMorgan Chase for nearly $1 million after a typo on his...

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School Officials Apologize For 'KKK Chicken Tenders' On School Lunch Menu

Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Lunch Menu, Video, Typos, Methuen School Lunch, School Misspellings, Kkk Chicken, Kkk, School Typos, Kkk Chicken Tenders, School Lunch Menu, Methuen Massachusetts, Massachusetts Schools, School Lunch, Methuen Schools, Education News

METHUEN, Mass. — School officials in a Massachusetts town are apologizing for sending home a lunch menu that listed KKK Chicken Tenders as an option...

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PICTURE: Grammar Is Important

Posted 02.28.2012

Read More: Funny Commentors, Funny Comments, Funny Facebook Statuses, Video, Facebook Grammar, Typos, Facebook Statuses, Facebook Typos, Grammar, Urlesque, Facebook, Comedy News

We've all been there: You come up with a joke and think to yourself, "This would be a great Facebook status!" So you type it in, post it for your ...

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"E" Stands for "Errors"

Karen Dionne | Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Authors, Ereaders, Publishing, Typos, Books, Mistakes, Electronic Readers, Readers, Ebooks, Books News

Authors who have massaged their book to perfection during the editorial and page proof stage may be dismayed to learn that the electronic version readers are purchasing and reading frequently represents an earlier effort.

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Worst Book Typos Of All Time

Madeleine Crum | Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: Typos, Spelling Mistakes, Worst Typos, Spelling Errors, Worst Book Typos, Books News

As non sequitur veteran Demitri Martin cheekily writes in “This Is A Book,” “a typo can charge the meaning of everything.” Susan Andersen ...

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PICTURE: Gaddafi's WHAT?

The Huffington Post | Christine Friar | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: Washington Post. Gadhafi, Fail, Video, Newspapers, Typos, Funny Pictures, Funny Headlines, Funny Typos, Washington Post Typo, Urlesque, Fails, Headline Typos, Comedy News

Someone at The Washington Post's Express Magazine World section was probably blushing yesterday, because a headline intended to innocently convey the ...

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PICTURE: How NOT To Get A Second Date

Posted 10.28.2011

Read More: First Dates, Video, Typos, Iphones, Second Dates, Dating, Texting Fails, Urlesque, Fails, How Not to Get a Second Date, Texting, Funny Texts, Comedy News

A great first date is awesome. You get home, tummy full of happy butterflies, while birds chirp merrily around your head and you think to yourself, "H...

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PHOTO: School Play Costume FAIL

Posted 07.24.2011

Read More: Costumes, Fail, Typos, Funny Pictures, Kids, Mishaps, Costume Fail, Play Costume Fail, School Play Costume Fail, School Plays, Urlesque, Fails, Pictures, Comedy News

Is it us, or did things just get PG-13 at this elementary school play? Redditor thebeefytaco writes: "I was looking at old pictures of my brother'...

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PHOTO: This Guy's A Veteran Of WHICH World War?

Posted 06.27.2011

Read More: Photos, Chyron Typo, World War Two, Don Krasin, Urlesque, Chyron, Veterans, World War 11, Video, Chyrons, Typos, Wwii, Local News Typo, WWII Veterans, Ww11, News, Local News, Comedy News

The year is 2345. The man: Don Krasin. Having just saved the planet from certain destruction by diffusing World War 11, he decides to hop in his time ...

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Best Typo Ever?

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York Times, Typos, Patrick McMullan, Arthur Sulzberger, Bill Keller, NY Around Town, Media News

Here are two images that will give Rupert Murdoch and Robert Thomson a good laugh: after Thursday evening's New York Times party welcoming new T Magaz...

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'The Great Typo Hunt'

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Advice to Writers, Word Blunders, Typos, Apostrphe Errors, Misusage, Writing, Benjamin D Herson, Words, Typo, Grammar, Comma Omissions, Editing, Word Misuse, Jeff Deck, Apostrophe, The Great Typo Hunt, Slidepollajax, Books News

Jeff Deck and Benjamin D. Herson traveled across the U.S. for two and a half months to find and correct typos in public signage. Deck and Herson tell...

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'The Great Typo Hunt': The Irresistible Allure Of Bad Spelling

Salon | Laura Wagner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Spelling, Bad Spelling, Books, Spelling Mistakes, The Great Typo Hunt, Spelling Errors, Typos, Books News

In November of 2007, Jeff Deck encountered a sign that would change his life. He had just returned from his five-year college reunion at Dartmouth Col...

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