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Your typical typos

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by novelist_wannabe, Jun 11, 2015.

  1. MNgremlin

    MNgremlin Active Member

    Cincinnati. I'm not even sure I wrote it right this time.

    So glad I don't live in Ohio!
     
  2. Bronco77

    Bronco77 Well-Known Member

    On the website of a Florida newspaper that shall remain nameless, a recent story referred to the city of "Fart Pierce." I think they did grow beans in that area years ago.
     
  3. jr/shotglass

    jr/shotglass Well-Known Member

    This all made me think of taking typing in summer school after 8th grade. One of very few wise things I did around that time.
     
  4. BDC99

    BDC99 Well-Known Member

    vicotry
     
  5. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    Hate that one too, although it's because I can't remember the right spelling half the time.
    I work in Mississippi, and it's a similar deal. I'm terrified every time I type it. So many i's and s's in a row that I sometimes have to count the keystrokes.
    Somehow, I haven't managed to screw it up yet. But it'll happen one day, and it'll probably be in a 70-point headline, thus upholding every Southern stereotype known to man.
     
  6. BDC99

    BDC99 Well-Known Member

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  7. da man

    da man Well-Known Member

    Having spent the past couple of weeks writing about a once-a-year event, I remembered another word I have trouble with: annula annual.
     
  8. da man

    da man Well-Known Member

    I do that one a lot, too.
     
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  9. da man

    da man Well-Known Member

    They were just trying to make the headline fit.
     
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  10. Tarheel316

    Tarheel316 Well-Known Member

    I get that with your and you're frequently. A reporter at my shop used peaked (interest) instead of piqued in a story. It was correctly pointed out by a reader but the news editor insisted peaked was correct.
     
    Last edited: Jul 4, 2015
  11. BDC99

    BDC99 Well-Known Member

    I'm not sure I've ever seen a writer get this one right.
     
  12. Riptide

    Riptide Well-Known Member

    I love it when writers aim for casual sophistication but type de rigeur instead of de rigueur.
     
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