Newspapers do appear to make a huge number of typos nowadays. But there are some really bad ones out there. Only yesterday, the Daily Mail published the following headline on their website [click to enlarge]:
Of course, that has now been corrected. But for a number of hours, the Daily Mail was proclaiming on their website [...]
Free eBay search tool Auction Bloopers does the exhaustive work of finding slight misspellings and typos in and around every word you type in, throwing them all into the online auction giant and returning with search results that include pretty much every possible result you might not find otherwise. We’ve previously highlighted a similar search [...]
Although, it's a popular extension already I am posting about it for the benefit of anyone who doesn't know of it yet! This firefox extension corrects typos in URLs that you enter in the address bar. For example, if you type google.con, it will correct it to google.com . Quite handy if you are prone to commiting those typos frequently.-US/firefox/addon/2871
This week's Friday roundup is all about typos.Copy editor Tim Stewart has been commenting on this blog recently, and his own blog, Typos in Print, might be one to watch – although it's too soon to say. Anyway, it's good to see another sub blogging.One of our regulars, Garik, emailed in to point out this post on Language Log. Not quite the Log's usual bag, but there are some interesting comments about if and when it is acceptable to "make fun of people who make spelling mistakes".Oh, and if you want to play 'spot the typo', check out the Priden Engineering website – but you'll have to be quick.
Case #1
I sort of work in a magazine publishing house and we get emails from subscribers. One day…
Male colleague: Check this out. This woman works for a company called Pubic Lice.
*Pause*
Me: Did you just say Pubic Lice?
Male colleague: Yup.
Me: Are you sure?
Male colleague: Yes!
Cue crazy Google session which, as you can probably imagine, yielded lots [...]
Baseballer Barry Bonds has complained in official court documents that typos in the prosecution's papers may actually compromise his right to a fair trial. The document said Bonds failed a drug teast in 2001, when in actual fact they meant 2000.Bonds has been accused of perjury after he stated that he never knowingly used performance enhancing drugs. He has pleaded not guilty and has requested the case be dismissed on the grounds that the questions asked him under oath were confusing.The typo caused confusion in the media, as they claimed the government had a new test which proved Bonds had lied.Source: Yahoo
And for the final question on the Grammar Nazi Level 1 proficiency exam, can you overlook the cute puppy and baby to find the error in this published cartoon:Hint: You're not proof-reading very carefully. Perhaps your editor needs to be fired.YAY, you win the game of life!Your well deserved prize is to enjoy the splendor that is DogEatDoug.
Oops! I meant “web content management system for windows.” Do search engines understanding consumer search engine typos? Typing something so close to what you are looking for, like typing “web content management system fr window” instead of “web content management system for windows” may not seem like a big deal, but search engine bloopers alter consumer searches more than we know.The phrase used in the title, “web content management system fr window” is a real-life example of a common search engine typo. In fact, within that phrase, the “o” and the “s” are missed so often that search engines like Google, Yahoo, and MSN have recorded the phrase “web content management system fr window” as searched about 481 times on a monthly average.You might ask how this affects your search engine searches. Well, let us use the same phrase for an example. Typing the phrase you are looking for, “web content management system for windows,” yields about 29.6 million index
Yesterday, Richmond columnist Don McNay tossed in his two-cents worth on Barbara Erwin's resume problems in his article, Unbridled Typos.""...[Dr.] Erwin may need a remedial course in typing. She also might need a course in semantics. In my high school grammar classes, we used different words than Ms. Erwin for incorrect information. One popular definition was “a lie.” Other definitions were “a falsehood” or “a misrepresentation.” “Typo” never made the list...""...If Ms. Erwin can teach me how to pad my resume and blow it off as a “typo,” she might be worth the money Kentucky is paying her...""...I am distraught that Kentucky would hire an education commissioner whose knowledge of typing and semantics are so weak. For $220,000 a year, they bought to be able to get a better candidate.When a government entity makes a bad hiring decision, I don’t get angry at the person being hired; I get angry at the people doing the hiring."And "Former Scottsdale Leader Lies to Ge
Google says that 10% of all searches are mispelled, so why not take advantage of these mispellings to improve your pay per click campaign. The cost of a misspelling can be upto 99% less than the correct spelling in terms of cost per click. Why add misspellings to your pay per click campaign? I say, why not! Here is a great tool that I use to help build keyword misspellings and proximity errors for my ppc campaigns. It is called GoodKeywords.Here is some more information about the keyword misspelling feature.Use the misspelling generator to create misspellings of your keyword. The misspellings may be generated based on a number of options.The supported options include duplicate characters, missing character, swapped characters and keyword proximity errors.You can right click within the generated word list to copy the words to the clipboard or to the keyword organizer.Misspelling generator optionsDuplicate charactersChecking this box will create misspellings based on duplicate characters
You know what I hate? I hate it when I write a really great email or ad or post and proofread it carefully before exposing it to public view and only later discover that I've completely blown it an sent something totally wrong and not a little embarrassing. Is there any way to recover? I sure wish I didn't have to!
We all make typos, and thus, I generally expect that people will make allowances for mine, and I try to do so for others. But I also get a kick out of them. My favorite recent ones include, "I can hose or come to your place..." and the guy who typoed his own name.
All that said, it's better not to make typos. No, this isn't a job search, but if you're trying to pick up an intelligent woman, you're going to want to look as well-polished (while still real) as you can, and typos don't help.
On the other hand, better a typo than an entirely garbled message. One of my friends pulled that little maneuver a while back, and I'll have to post about it sometime soon. It's
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