Archive for the ‘newspaper typos’ Category

The first typo is “pellet funs” should be “pellet guns”. The second typo is the missing punctuation from the last sentence.

Pre-paid bank cards will be provided in the following denominations:

$10 for non-working or antique guns, including pellet funs and BB guns. $50 for rifles or shotguns $75 for handguns. $100 for assault weapons

Seen by Thomas on the web.


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.



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.