Archive for November, 2005

Thomas found this typo in an article at pomonahistorical.org about folding paper 12 times.

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Thomas spotted this typo in an article about the new Johnny Cash movie. The typo is the word “recorded” is spelled without the R. Typo spotted on November 18, 2005 on the ABC News web site.

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you’re, not you’ve, originally uploaded by Shameful Typos.

The Superintendent didn’t say “you’ve going to”, he said “you’re going to”, but the Buffalo News typed it wrong.

Typo spotted by Thomas on November 17, 2005.

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previous_ly, originally uploaded by Shameful Typos.

The sentence circled in red makes more sense if the letters “ly” are added to the word “previous”. Then again, it could use a bit of a re-write.

Typo spotted by Thomas on cnn.com on November 11, 2005.

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missing the word "to", originally uploaded by Shameful Typos.

This article about the death of Steve Courson, former Pittsburgh Steelers lineman, is missing the word “to” from the third paragraph.

Typo spotted by Thomas at sportsillustrated.cnn.com on November 11, 2005.

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