Word: typos
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...they see is the newspaper on their doorstep in the morning, and often it leaves room for improvement. In my three-and-a-half years of writing for this paper, I, like everyone else who spends time here each week, have fielded complaints from disgruntled readers: Why was that typo in the paper? Why did you cover/not cover that event? Who wrote that awful headline? Why wasn’t my paper delivered this morning...
...Yankees by their “classy uniforms” and “winning tradition,” and by “how hot Derek Jeter is.” These are actual quotes, friends—quotes from people who think Andruw Jones is a typo and “Giambi” was the Robin Williams flick with the magic board game...
...facility with patterns and order led her to create--and be ruled by--her own obsessive systems. Jessy's calculations based on the weather and the phases of the moon, for example, long dictated precisely how much juice she poured into her glass at dinner. And the word typo inspired her to invent a vocabulary for other errors: speako, cooko, bake-o, painto...
...businessman. But his secret came out when he ran for the Scottsdale city council last year, and he went to federal prison. His successful pardon application drew support from several Senators. But in Clinton's haste to process so many pleas, he signed a pardon letter that contained a typo and ended up clearing Mechanic of the wrong charge...
...unfortunate typo in a Reuters report at the weekend may hint at the Bush administration?s troubles in selling America?s allies on missile defense. "A system of defense need not be perfect," the wire service quoted Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as telling European security chiefs gathered in Germany. "But the American people must not be left completely senseless...