# Best/Worst Typo/Spell-Check Error You've Seen Lately **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 14, 2015, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-typo-spell-check-error-youve-seen-lately/725157 "2015-07-14T17:49:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-typo-spell-check-error-youve-seen-lately/725157/21 "2015-07-24T19:50:04Z")
[QUOTE=Heckity] In a local newspaper under Help Wanted “Clerk needed . . . attention to detail. . . in a fast paste environment”. Spell check wouldn’t have helped. [/QUOTE] To be fair, back in the day when newspapers were assembled on “boards” from physical bits of paper from the typesetting machine, the process was called paste-up, and with deadline approaching, it was definitely fast. My recent favorite is a local restaurant that had an odd special for dinner: Roast pork lion. Does it oink or roar? ---
**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-typo-spell-check-error-youve-seen-lately/725157/22 "2015-07-24T22:10:15Z")
I once saw an ad for a discount outlet that said, “We Will Not Be Understood.” ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-typo-spell-check-error-youve-seen-lately/725157/23 "2015-07-24T22:18:07Z")
> [@Cartoonacy](#): > > I once saw an ad for a discount outlet that said, “We Will Not Be Understood.” Wait, what? I don’t unders… Oh. :o Wait, I didn’t understand. So I understood. WAT? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-typo-spell-check-error-youve-seen-lately/725157/24 "2015-07-24T22:59:55Z")
It is general practice at my workplace that if you are having a guest come in who is new to the company, he or she is welcomed with a sign on an easel near our reception desk. I called the receptionist to let her know I was having a visitor. His name was K. D. Stephens (last name altered). I spelled it out for her “K as in King, D as in Dog”. When she called me to let me know he was here on the day of our appointment, I went up front to fetch him. To my horror, there was a big sign asking my co-workers to welcome Mr. King Dog Stephens. ---
**Author:** ![purplehearingaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@purplehearingaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehearingaid)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-typo-spell-check-error-youve-seen-lately/725157/25 "2015-07-24T23:42:49Z")
I use CC on my TV b/c I am hard of hearing and I am always seeing funny typo. There was story about a man drowning this was NOT funny but instead of typing grown man the CC said " blown man" . I was like WTF?? Put on the CC on some videos on line some time just to get a good laugh . It drive me crazy b/c I need to the CC to know what being said. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2015, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-typo-spell-check-error-youve-seen-lately/725157/26 "2015-07-25T01:30:30Z")
A list of Christmas carols typed up by one of my then-employer’s dingbat admin assistants included the gem “Away in a Manager”. Howls of mirth all around at the Christmas lunch. > [@Mama\_Zappa](#): > > You see, as far as I know, no government agency actually has a Department of Pubic Housing (and if they do, I do NOT want to know about it). > > P U B L I C with an ‘L’, not ‘P U B I C’ without the ‘L’ :eek::smack: > > Fortunately, this was caught before it went to the client. When I worked for Medicare’s publications department in Florida, several people missed a headline with the exact same typo. Missed it until it had been printed and mailed out to all the Medicare providers in Florida, that is. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2015, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-typo-spell-check-error-youve-seen-lately/725157/27 "2015-07-25T13:57:11Z")
One of the basic mods everybody should do to their spell-checker is to remove certain words that are mis-corrects for words that appear frequently in their line of work. “Pubic” vs. “Public” being one of the obvious offenders. ---
**Author:** ![trapezoidal\_jellyfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6f9a4e/32.png) [@trapezoidal\_jellyfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/trapezoidal_jellyfish)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2015, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-typo-spell-check-error-youve-seen-lately/725157/28 "2015-07-27T04:20:33Z")
According to the first sentence [here](http://www.mlive.com/lansing-news/index.ssf/2012/02/authorities_meth_lab_causes_ex.html), the trigonometry really got out of hand: > [@](#): > > Two men are in custody after authorities say a math lab caused an explosion in a Clinton County trailer park Monday evening. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2015, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-typo-spell-check-error-youve-seen-lately/725157/29 "2015-07-27T10:39:21Z")
> [@GrumpyBunny](#): > > A list of Christmas carols typed up by one of my then-employer’s dingbat admin assistants included the gem “Away in a Manager”. well, “Manager” is sort of like “Coach”, so … a twofer that I found online: “…about players who can’t hack it playing poker so they make up some cock and ball story about being atop coach”. I was Googling for instances of the phrase “cock and ball story” for “cock and bull story” and found this gem with two misapplied phrases that spellcheck wouldn’t catch. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2015, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-typo-spell-check-error-youve-seen-lately/725157/30 "2015-07-27T11:58:59Z")
Spellcheck wouldn’t have helped the cake decorator who made the **HAPPY BIRTHDAY CLINT** cake. That was more font/kerning. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2015, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-typo-spell-check-error-youve-seen-lately/725157/31 "2015-07-27T16:26:02Z")
Swype made me ask my wife if she felt like Tina for dinner on Friday. Unfortunately, we just ended up having tuna as I originally planned ☹ ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2015, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-typo-spell-check-error-youve-seen-lately/725157/32 "2015-07-27T17:12:25Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > One of the basic mods everybody should do to their spell-checker is to remove certain words that are mis-corrects for words that appear frequently in their line of work. > > “Pubic” vs. “Public” being one of the obvious offenders. I work in healthcare, so both words are valid. But we ended up removing “pubic” just so we’d get repeated warnings when it was used. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2015, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-typo-spell-check-error-youve-seen-lately/725157/33 "2015-07-27T19:20:46Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Spellcheck wouldn’t have helped the cake decorator who made the **HAPPY BIRTHDAY CLINT** cake. That was more font/kerning. I just Googled that and starting laughing like 12 year old. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2015, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-typo-spell-check-error-youve-seen-lately/725157/34 "2015-07-27T20:11:39Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > I just Googled that and starting laughing like 12 year old. 😃 Yeah, I still get a laugh thinking about poor Clint.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Carryon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc29f/32.png) [@Carryon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carryon)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2015, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-typo-spell-check-error-youve-seen-lately/725157/35 "2015-07-27T22:19:31Z")
One of the best Dilbert Cartoons: Myron: And for your information my name is MYRON not MORON. Please be more careful with your spell check. Pointy Haired Boss: I have spell check? ---
**Author:** ![fade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fade)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2015, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-typo-spell-check-error-youve-seen-lately/725157/36 "2015-07-27T23:07:30Z")
this one amused me, like a very masculine green tea [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=309721&postcount=7](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=309721&postcount=7) ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2015, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-typo-spell-check-error-youve-seen-lately/725157/37 "2015-07-27T23:27:06Z")
> [@GrumpyBunny](#): > > A list of Christmas carols typed up by one of my then-employer’s dingbat admin assistants included the gem “Away in a Manager” “The shepherds go to the manager” –lessons and carols program from back in the eighties sometime, so we can’t blame spellcheck. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2015, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-typo-spell-check-error-youve-seen-lately/725157/38 "2015-07-28T00:40:26Z")
My all-time favorite occurred when I was working as a proofreader at a Savings and Loan. One of the production word processors had typed the following as the greeting for a letter: > [@](#): > > Dear Sir or Madman: I came so very, very close to deliberately letting that go out as is. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2015, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-typo-spell-check-error-youve-seen-lately/725157/39 "2015-07-28T02:16:35Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > One of the basic mods everybody should do to their spell-checker is to > (snip) …set it to flag and suggest but NOT autocorrect. Let it pester me, if I’m doing it on purpose I’ll just ignore it. ---
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2015, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-typo-spell-check-error-youve-seen-lately/725157/40 "2015-07-28T16:40:34Z")
Our admin sent me an IM that contained the word “afforchantly.” Our IM program has spellcheck but not autocorrect. I had to say it out loud five or six times and use word association (thankfully it was the last word in the sentence) to figure it out. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-typo-spell-check-error-youve-seen-lately/725157.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-typo-spell-check-error-youve-seen-lately/725157.md?page=3)