Spell-check horror #18,441

Former major league player Robert Fick, especially when he was with the Braves. Apparently the 'I' key is thisclose to the "U" key.

Never got in the paper, but I caught it a couple of times of page proofs. Yikes!

 

Well, that would be a good night.

 

I get nostalgic for Coyote. Definitely need to command-K that file ...

 

Who is Sergei Federov? Did you mean Fedorov?

 

Distant cousins.

 

We had a high school project where we had to put together a newspaper for a particular year in history. My group managed to get "shit" in there twice, misspelling two different words ("shirt" and "shift") in the process.

 

My community college newspaper: Story about a local "Lebanese" family; Spellcheck changed them all to "lesbian"

Never made it to print, luckily.

 

Man, I sure wish I could recall the details, but we had a copy editor once using the grammar-check function in Word instead of spell-check. Then he clicked "Replace All" instead of "Ignore All" and it ended up replacing every "an" with "a" or something like that, leading to about 30 words being misspelled in a 15-inch story. I caught it on the final read, but it took a while to fix it -- and to figure out how the hell it happened.

 

My old paper once had a story about a local ski resort's new snot-making equipment.

 

I've told the story on here before, but the publisher at my first paper wrote a column for one of the holidays. Included the word placemat. Spellcheck changed it to placenta, so she wrote about setting her silverware down on the placenta.

I don't think anyone saw it until I pointed it out the next day.

 

Depends (pun intended). Were they his own or other people's? I kinda think it would suck to stop other people's shits.

 

Hey, we were on Coyote until last year. Still have people that want it back, too.