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Bills blames themselves

From the Buffalo News web site, www.buffalonews.com, this typo shows the
difficulty in getting subject-verb agreement when a singular entity like a
team has a plural name like the Bills.

mechanical, originally uploaded by adaminhull.

Adam found a cornucopia of typos in this coupon from IHOP.

should be "mid-sized" not "midi sized", originally uploaded by Shameful Typos.

Seen by Thomas at Wilson Farms.

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.

chopsticks package packed full of typos, originally uploaded by Shameful Typos.

There are too many typos to list.

Submitted by Corey Lewis (through Thomas).

Thomas thinks the typos are intentional, in order to make the food with which they are served seem like it is more Chinese and less Chinese-American. Either that, or the words were scanned in by an OCR (optical character recognition) scanner by someone who doesn’t proofread English very well.

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.

Found at Wilson Farms by Thomas, originally uploaded by Shameful Typos.

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?

Should be totally not totaly.

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.