Good news is, although the mistake was embarrassing and captured on film, it’s easy to fix. Some white paint and a few hours to dry, the mistake is gone. Unfortunately, mistakes in print media, not so easy to fix…
A few years ago, my husband received his copy of Towson University’s magazine with a glaring error – the magazine featured an article about a reunion class and the couple who hosted the reunion. Unfortunately, the magazine was published with the hosts’ names printed as “(??? ???).” Ahhh! Clearly, someone forgot to go back in and insert the names. Yikes.
I feel terrible for whoever made the mistake, but have tried to learn from it. I’m so paranoid about sending things to the printer…everything goes past at least four sets of eyes. However, we are human and mistakes are bound to happen.
Photo is copyrighted by AP and was found on this site: http://www.onetipaday.com/2009/04/09/spell-checker-for-msn-messenger/
This is great!! It's hard to believe a spelling error like this could ever occur! And it's ironic that the word school of all words would be spelled incorrectly. It's really difficult to find typographical errors outside large bodies of type. Thanks for sharing this very humorous example!
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