Archive for March, 2007


But it should be “good-looking Web sites are important.”

Spotted by Thomas on the Buffalo News web site, where careful proofreading is important, too.

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As it says in the text boxes, this poster, seen at Wilson Farms, has the foreign punctuation wrong. Why give it any foreign punctuation at all, if you’re not going to do it right?

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Should be totally not totaly.

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The album cover clearly shows the title uses a contraction, but the review headline and the text in the body of the review spells out “I Am” instead.

Typo spotted by Doubting Thomas in the printed version of the Artvoice, a weekly newspaper published in Buffalo, NY.

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Key Bank gives away stuff when you open an account. I know someone got an iPod a while back. I don’t think they’re giving away cannons….

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