# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2015, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-typo-spell-check-error-youve-seen-lately/725157/41 "2015-07-30T20:18:55Z")
> [@bobkitty](#): > > 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. 😕 Please provide either the sentence or the word that was intended. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2015, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-typo-spell-check-error-youve-seen-lately/725157/42 "2015-07-30T20:36:39Z")
I’m guessing “unfortunately”. ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2015, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-typo-spell-check-error-youve-seen-lately/725157/43 "2015-07-30T21:20:55Z")
Less than an hour ago I read an ad for a car on Craigslist that promised it was “100% emasculate, inside and out!” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Angry\_Badger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b38774/32.png) [@The\_Angry\_Badger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Angry_Badger)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2015, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-typo-spell-check-error-youve-seen-lately/725157/44 "2015-07-30T23:07:38Z")
A couple of months ago, my wife needed to take one of our ducks to the vet, so phoned up and made an appointment (which involved giving the duck’s name over the phone). After seeing the vet, she needed some antibiotics so picked them up from the front desk. Now, the vet in question has a naming convention of \:\. Our duck’s name is ‘Duckula’ (after [Count Duckula](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Duckula), an old children’s cartoon 🙂 ). The name put on the label on the meds? ‘Mrs Badger: Duck Killer’. The receptionist was mortified when we explained the real name, but we just had a good laugh about it. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2015, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-typo-spell-check-error-youve-seen-lately/725157/45 "2015-07-30T23:31:09Z")
I saw this comment on a YouTube video of a song: “His songs just seem to speak to me. It’s probably the upbeat tune of most of his dongs” ---
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2015, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-typo-spell-check-error-youve-seen-lately/725157/46 "2015-07-31T00:03:41Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > I’m guessing “unfortunately”. You guessed correctly. Sorry, I thought I posted a follow up but apparently it didn’t go through. ---
**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 31, 2015, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-typo-spell-check-error-youve-seen-lately/725157/47 "2015-07-31T11:23:49Z")
> [@August\_West](#): > > Less than an hour ago I read an ad for a car on Craigslist that promised it was “100% emasculate, inside and out!” Steam cleaning got the semen stains out. Cool! ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2015, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-typo-spell-check-error-youve-seen-lately/725157/48 "2015-07-31T17:36:56Z")
The _New Yorker_ still employs copy editors. In fact, one of them just wrote a book about it, and it’s pretty good: [http://amzn.com/0393240185](http://amzn.com/0393240185) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2019, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-typo-spell-check-error-youve-seen-lately/725157/49 "2019-08-17T14:46:50Z")
Bump. On today’s Google News feed I was offered this article from [cbsnews.com](http://cbsnews.com): > [@](#): > > Jerri Kelly - Arkansas woman - held four black boots fundraising for high school football at gunpoint in Wynne County When I clicked on the article the headline [had already been updated at the site](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jerri-kelly-arkansas-woman-held-four-black-boots-fundraising-for-high-school-football-at-gunpoint-in-wynne-county/#), but the original is still in the URL. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2019, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-typo-spell-check-error-youve-seen-lately/725157/50 "2019-08-17T16:28:34Z")
> [@jasg](#): > > Spell-check is our greatest enema. Decades ago, I was a crisis intervention counselor for a crisis hotline. We had to write up each call in a ledger, for the other counselors to read. One of the counselors wrote of a caller who was “into giving himself enigmas.” She then went on to describe how he filled the “enigma bottle” and inserted it into his rectum. I had trouble answering the phone, I was laughing so hard. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2019, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-typo-spell-check-error-youve-seen-lately/725157/51 "2019-08-17T19:51:32Z")
I can’t remember if I posted this on the Dope or not, but earlier this year at work, I was typing an email to a patient. I intended to type “Hi, Seth,” but fat-fingered “Hi, Sety,” by mistake (y being adjacent to h). Autocorrect autocorrected it to “Hi, Sexy,” for me. Fortunately, I was watching when it happened or who knows if I would have caught it. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_S\_itmagnet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5ac83/32.png) [@Captain\_S\_itmagnet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_S_itmagnet)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2019, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-typo-spell-check-error-youve-seen-lately/725157/52 "2019-08-17T23:30:15Z")
I always annoy the family by finding spelling errors on restaurant menus. Recent favourite: “Mediterranean” spelled wrong on the printed in-house menu and also the online takeout menu. So what? It’s an excellent place with an reputation for great food and service . It’s a Greek restaurant operated by a family of Greek origin. But that patch of water is kind of significant over there. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2019, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-typo-spell-check-error-youve-seen-lately/725157/53 "2019-08-18T04:05:05Z")
On another message board, I was watching the dialogue between a number of Canadians who were discussing the SNC-Lavalin affair, and how it might affect Justin Trudeau’s chances in this fall’s general election. Andrew Scheer, of the Conservative Party, will be Mr. Trudeau’s main opponent, though other parties will be running also. Anyway, it was very apparent that one poster was not paying attention to what autocorrect was doing when something akin to the following appeared: “So when Scheer is running against Trump this fall…” Donald Trump is running for Parliament? Who knew? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2019, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-typo-spell-check-error-youve-seen-lately/725157/54 "2019-08-18T04:23:59Z")
Ms.Butt is granddaughters kindergarten teacher. DIL talked to the kid for a month about not making fun of the teachers name, EVER. At the open house all the teachers were introduced. In the program there was a typo for Ms.Butts name. It was spelled Ms.Boot. She was introduced as Ms.Boot. DIL, according to the kid and Son-of-a-wrek, had hysterics and had to excuse herself and leave the auditorium. Tears running down her face. Kid was not amused. Lo and behold the teacher pronounces her name Ms.Boot not ‘butt’. Kid is real confused. Son-of-a-wrek said the only thing worse would be if she pronounced it Ms.Beaut, as she is a little homely. Poor granddaughter. I’m not sure how she’s gonna get through this school year.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Labor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Labor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labor)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2019, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-typo-spell-check-error-youve-seen-lately/725157/55 "2019-08-19T17:21:23Z")
Egad, I’m a manager for a government agency, the shop steward has a law degree from a well regarded law school, he uses \*pacific \*instead of \*specific \*and \*than \*instead of _then_. I have a hard time taking him seriously. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2019, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-typo-spell-check-error-youve-seen-lately/725157/56 "2019-08-19T18:09:24Z")
I popped in with one of mine… only to note that I’d posted it 4 years ago as the second post in the thread :D. So I’ll follow with this [one.](https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/cathay-pacific-livery-typo/index.html). Whoopsie! ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2019, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-typo-spell-check-error-youve-seen-lately/725157/57 "2019-10-01T09:11:45Z")
Just received an impressively awkward typo in an email from college. There’s apparently someone doing counselling drop-in sessions from an organisation called ‘First Light Domestic Abuse Services’, or, as the email would have it ‘Fist Light Domestic…’ Oops. ---
**Author:** ![Onthefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9de053/32.png) [@Onthefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onthefly)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2019, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-typo-spell-check-error-youve-seen-lately/725157/58 "2019-10-01T21:50:45Z")
The University of South Carolina has a football player with the first name Shi. After his first game, autocorrect caused issues with several sports outlets. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2019, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-typo-spell-check-error-youve-seen-lately/725157/59 "2019-10-01T22:02:55Z")
> [@Captain\_S\_itmagnet](#): > > I always annoy the family by finding spelling errors on restaurant menus. I remember the English menu at a restaurant in Costa Rica which included such poorly translated entries as “Hole jumbo shrimp” and “Tender lion wraped [sic] in baco”. Yes, “wrapped” was misspelled in addition to the other obvious errors, so we decided it should be pronounced like “raped”. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2019, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-typo-spell-check-error-youve-seen-lately/725157/60 "2019-10-02T17:44:52Z")
When I was checking into a Doubletree Inn in Columbia SC, the reservation counter had a binder for UPS deliveries laid to the side. On the cover: DELIVERIE’S WILL BE RECIEVED AT THE “BACK DOOR” My room wasn’t ready. Maybe they were still trying to figure out how to remove those red wavy lines. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-worst-typo-spell-check-error-youve-seen-lately/725157.md?page=2)