# Worst typo you ever made? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 21, 2019, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-typo-you-ever-made/828151 "2019-01-21T14:11:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2019, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-typo-you-ever-made/828151/41 "2019-01-30T08:51:03Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > I once left out the “o” in the word “count”. . To this day, I avoid using the word in any form of communication On a similar note, here’s my favorite fact\* I learned in middle school: The printers of comic books refused to allow the word “flick” because they were afraid the ink would smudge, connecting the letters L and I. \*possibly an urban legend, but we kids loved it! ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2019, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-typo-you-ever-made/828151/42 "2019-01-30T20:57:03Z")
Not technically a typo, I guess, but I learned the hard way that misspelling the name of a professor you’re already on sort of thin ice with _really_ doesn’t help matters. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2019, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-typo-you-ever-made/828151/43 "2019-02-01T15:47:48Z")
Does writing an email bitching about the cranial capacity of a client… does it count if, because I was apparently thinking about the client, I cc:ed him on the email? Not truly a “typo”, per se… ---
**Author:** ![Art\_Rock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/art_rock/32/525_2.png) [@Art\_Rock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Art_Rock)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2019, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-typo-you-ever-made/828151/44 "2019-02-01T15:52:12Z")
When I was still working at a multinational oil company, I wrote an important internal memorandum about our Pernis refinery (Pernis being the small village near Rotterdam where the refinery was located). You can guess what went wrong. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2019, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-typo-you-ever-made/828151/45 "2019-02-01T16:11:37Z")
> [@Art\_Rock](#): > > When I was still working at a multinational oil company, I wrote an important internal memorandum about our Pernis refinery (Pernis being the small village near Rotterdam where the refinery was located). You can guess what went wrong. You actually meant to say the one in Piershil? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2019, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-typo-you-ever-made/828151/46 "2019-02-02T22:17:37Z")
> [@chappachula](#): > > On a similar note, here’s my favorite fact\* I learned in middle school: > The printers of comic books refused to allow the word “flick” because they were afraid the ink would smudge, connecting the letters L and I. > > \*possibly an urban legend, but we kids loved it! Officially in the Dilbert newspaper comic the character Dogbert was going to be called Dildog but was shot down by the syndicator in case there was ever a printing error and the name accidentally changed to “Dildo” ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2019, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-typo-you-ever-made/828151/47 "2019-02-03T01:57:21Z")
The residents of the town of Dildo, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada would have appreciated it. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2019, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-typo-you-ever-made/828151/48 "2019-02-03T03:04:48Z")
> [@Art\_Rock](#): > > When I was still working at a multinational oil company, I wrote an important internal memorandum about our Pernis refinery (Pernis being the small village near Rotterdam where the refinery was located). You can guess what went wrong. Pernis ensued? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-typo-you-ever-made/828151.md?page=2)