Best/Worst Typo/Spell-Check Error You've Seen Lately

[gotpasswords]

[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?

[Cartoonacy]

I once saw an ad for a discount outlet that said, “We Will Not Be Understood.”

[gnoitall]

@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?

[stillownedbysetters]

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.

[purplehearingaid]

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.

[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”.

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:

[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.

[trapezoidal_jellyfish]

According to the first sentence here, 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.

[Ludovic]

@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.

[kayaker]

Spellcheck wouldn’t have helped the cake decorator who made the HAPPY BIRTHDAY CLINT cake. That was more font/kerning.

[Sicks_Ate]

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

[GrumpyBunny]

@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.

[Leaffan]

@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.

[kayaker]

@Leaffan

I just Googled that and starting laughing like 12 year old.

Yeah, I still get a laugh thinking about poor Clint.

[Carryon]

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?

[fade]

this one amused me, like a very masculine green tea http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=309721&postcount=7

[Ulf_the_Unwashed]

@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.

[Morgyn]

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.

[JRDelirious]

@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.

[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.