# Correction of the week, from the NY Times **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 17, 2012, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/correction-of-the-week-from-the-ny-times/625467 "2012-06-17T23:39:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2012, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/correction-of-the-week-from-the-ny-times/625467/1 "2012-06-17T23:39:12Z")
“A picture caption last Sunday with an article about the vanishing community of Americans on Chichi Jima, a remote Pacific island that was founded by an American sailor but turned over to the Japanese in 1968, misstated the given name of a Westerner who served in the American Navy and now runs a bar in the island. He is Rance Ohira, not Lance.” ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Parker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@Richard\_Parker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Parker)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2012, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/correction-of-the-week-from-the-ny-times/625467/2 "2012-06-17T23:48:09Z")
😃 ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2012, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/correction-of-the-week-from-the-ny-times/625467/3 "2012-06-17T23:57:57Z")
That took a little while to get, but… OY! ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/correction-of-the-week-from-the-ny-times/625467/4 "2012-06-18T00:01:13Z")
So, someone heard Rance and assume it was Lance. It’s not that big of a leap. (But a little funny) ---
**Author:** ![Heckity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a5b964/32.png) [@Heckity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heckity)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/correction-of-the-week-from-the-ny-times/625467/5 "2012-06-18T01:22:36Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > That took a little while to get, but… OY! Me too - I was half way across the room when I :smack:😃 ---
**Author:** ![AuntPam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@AuntPam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntPam)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/correction-of-the-week-from-the-ny-times/625467/6 "2012-06-18T02:11:52Z")
I swear this is true: In college, i worked part-time in the cafeteria. One evening, as I was working the sandwich bar, a Japanese grad student marched up and asked for a BRT. “A BRT?” I said, puzzled. He looked at me with scorn. “Yes. A bacon, rettuce, and tomato!” (Oh, of course, I thought to myself…) ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/correction-of-the-week-from-the-ny-times/625467/7 "2012-06-18T02:23:46Z")
> [@Richard\_Parker](#): > > 😃 x2 ---
**Author:** ![thursday\_next](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8797f3/32.png) [@thursday\_next](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thursday_next)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/correction-of-the-week-from-the-ny-times/625467/8 "2012-06-18T02:55:57Z")
I totally didn’t get that until I read **AuntPam** ’s post. Then I was reminded of someone at my Sweetpea’s work who occasionally makes “dairy reports”. Yes, he sometimes types in an accent. He even laughs about it. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/correction-of-the-week-from-the-ny-times/625467/9 "2012-06-18T05:43:50Z")
ROR ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/correction-of-the-week-from-the-ny-times/625467/10 "2012-06-18T05:49:38Z")
> [@laina\_f](#): > > ROR 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/correction-of-the-week-from-the-ny-times/625467/11 "2012-06-18T19:01:16Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > “A picture caption last Sunday with an article about the vanishing community of Americans on Chichi Jima, a remote Pacific island that was founded by an American sailor but turned over to the Japanese in 1968, misstated the given name of a Westerner who served in the American Navy and now runs a bar in the island. He is Rance Ohira, not Lance.” We regret the rapse in reporting. You should march down to the New Yorker and demand a job bringing back news breaks. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/correction-of-the-week-from-the-ny-times/625467/12 "2012-06-18T20:10:38Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > You should march down to the New Yorker and demand a job bringing back news breaks. I have been marching down there and demanding that for years–it was often the best thing in the issue, I don’t know \*what \*idiot did away with them. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/correction-of-the-week-from-the-ny-times/625467/13 "2012-06-18T20:26:38Z")
They did it on purpose so they could print the retraction rater. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2012, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/correction-of-the-week-from-the-ny-times/625467/14 "2012-06-19T18:03:13Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > I have been marching down there and demanding that for years–it was often the best thing in the issue, I don’t know \*what \*idiot did away with them. It must have been _that woman_. I blame everything that has gone wrong on _that woman_. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2012, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/correction-of-the-week-from-the-ny-times/625467/15 "2012-06-19T18:14:37Z")
> [@rachelellogram](#): > > They did it on purpose so they could print the retraction rater. Letlaction isn’t even a word!