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!
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.
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…
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?
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”
The residents of the town of Dildo, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada would have appreciated it.
Pernis ensued?