Archive for January, 2006


I’m not sure what country the .cl in the domain name indicates, but it’s a Spanish-language site that links to ShamefulTypos.com and calls our site “Un Colega!!!”

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There’s an apostrophe missing from this school bus;
it should be “Puna’s Pumpkin Patch”

This typo was spotted on Niagara Street in Buffalo, New York, on January 27, 2006. Captured with a phone camera.

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Thomas spotted this poster advertising a free resume workshop. The main typo is that the word YOUR should be YOU’RE, but the glaringly excessive quotation marks and underlining made this poster very shameful. Thomas blurred out the name of the offending sponsor of the resume workshop. Captured with a camera-phone, January 26, 2006.

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Typo found on Buffalo Rising on January 9, 2005.

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Because the closed-caption typist made the same typo three times, I had time to get my camera out to photograph the error (it should be spelled “senseless”). Seen on WKBW on Jan. 3, 2006 by Thomas.

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