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Typos from Hell

9/29/2011

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In this digital age spell checkers have made typos come to the forefront as the bane of writers. Typos arise when we miss a letter (our massage treatments help relive your pain), replace a letter with another (we feature some-day shipping), switch the order of letters (I know judo, karate, jujitsu and other forms of marital arts), or even when we miss a space (the penis mightier than the sword).

Many typos are particular to each author. I, for example, tend to write "bellow" instead of "below", "were" instead of "where", and "of" instead of "off". In my book The Sun Zebra, I caught a typo that I had overlooked despite a few rounds of editing. I wrote "stripped quadrupeds" instead of "striped quadrupeds". Although finding typos may bother some people, I don't mind a few. In fact, I think they are fun to discover.

In some books I have read recently I have found some fun typos like "god judgment" instead of "good judgment", "roll model" instead of "role model", and "fir" instead of "fur". But the most unfortunate and hilarious of typos is probably what happened to the hero in a book by Susan Andersen.

Leave a comment and share some typos, they can either be your own or someone else's.

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Barbara Alfaro link
10/2/2011 12:46:32 am

Thanks for such a fun post! I've got two. A reviewer, giving my memoir "Mirror Talk" a very generous review, typed "Gad" instead of "God." Oh well, a good review is a good review. And years ago, when I worked as a legal secretary, I was training my replacement who had just typed "Spring Court" instead of "Supreme Court." She actually inquired if she "had" to change it to Supreme Court!

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phantomimic link
10/2/2011 07:01:19 am

Thanks Barbara, "Spring Court"? Hmmm...as in bounce(to spring)? Maybe Kangaroo Court? LOL! By the way, today I wrote "whiling" instead of "willing". Sometimes my brain just short circuits!

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Susan Elliot Wright link
10/2/2011 07:49:19 am

i once wrote a letter of complaint, in which I was trying to make the point that the time I'd spent dealing with the issue was costing me money. Instead of telling them that I was a 'busy freelance journalist', I stated(falsely, it must be said) that I was a 'busty freelance journalist'.

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phantomimic link
10/3/2011 01:48:32 pm

LOL, that was funny Susan! Yes the "t" key is right next to the "y" key and if you strike the "y" key from the left you may end with "ty" instead of just "y". Such is the nature of typos! : ^ )

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Mercedes link
11/18/2011 03:02:18 pm

The best typo I ever read was "They raped the windows and children." I couldn't stop laughing, and I felt badly about it because it was in such a dark part of the story. But AHAHAHAHAHA!

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