Embarrassing SI spelling error of the week

In Scorecard, no less. Writing about Gus Johnson, this week's Sports Illustrated hyperextends its vocabulary on page 13 by calling him "garrelous Gus." Garrelous? Don't reach for a word if you don't know how to spell it, right?

 

Never send callow youth to do the work of experienced hands.

Unless you're utterly pound-foolish.

 

Automatically a "callow youth," right? Obviously, only someone under the age of 25 would make such an error.

Why are we picking on minor spelling errors that most of the readership wouldn't catch? Is this relevant? In a given week, there are dozens (and possibly hundreds, depending on where you work) of similar errors in every newspaper.

It's one thing when a fact is wrong, but really -- do you have to stoop so low as to deprecate those with more talent than you out of envy?

This thread has no value.

 

SI made an embarrassing spelling error. So have I, so have you.

Get over it.

 

If we're talking about embarrassing spelling errors, how about the AP TV listings for Saturday? Five college softball games listed. THREE of them had typos. Unless Geprgia, Oregoin and Arziona State are really competing in the tournament.

 

FWIW, my eyes bugged when I saw SI call it Richmond International Speedway in the Halladay issue.

 

I think it's funny that there are long, long threads on this site that deal with how short-staffed and over-worked most of our sections are, but every time something bigger than your average daily makes a mistake - and usually because they, too, have been gutted and are working on a skeleton staff - there's someone starting a thread to jump on them about not being perfect.

When I see a mistake in SI or the NYT or their ilk, I just feel bad for the writer and editor who let it slip by because I've been there before and those kinds of mistakes have made me feel like a piece of garbage, too.

 

Although they should take extra care to check their spelling, I'm not really concerned with this. I'd rather see a spelling mistake than a mistake with a name, some information, or a statistic. All in all, SI should learn to use "Spell Check". Other than that, the world isn't going to blink over a lone spelling mistake.

 

Arziona State is getting spanked by Floirdia right now.

 

Micigan got upset by Tenesee