Newspaper Misspells its Own Name on the Front Page
This week New Hampshire’s Valley News readers were treated to a typo of the highest order! The paper’s own name was misspelled as “Valley Newss” on the front page!
The paper did go on to acknowledge its mistake in an Editors note saying: “Readers may have noticed that the Valley News misspelled its own name on yesterday’s front page”.
Readers may have noticed? Yeah it is kind of hard to miss the masthead! That’s OK we love typos and spelling mistakes here!
While the paper said “We sure feel silly,” those of us that specialize in finding typos and misspellings are pretty pleased. Hat Tip
July 24th, 2008 at 11:53 am
Wow thats terrible! Nice find
July 24th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
I found this with Stumble upon. This isn’t even close to beating one of our local papers. When I was in high school the Moscow-Pullman Daily News had a recipe for a “Bowel Full of Brownies.”
I still wish I’d saved a clipping of that. It’s probably the worst result of trusting spellcheck I’ve ever seen.
July 25th, 2008 at 12:51 am
spelling mistake or typeing error ?????????????
July 25th, 2008 at 2:09 am
I hope you appreciate this.
Your story about the newspaper which misspelled their own name is followed by your own error, to wit:
Tags: headline, masthead, misppelling, name, newpaper, typo
Here, you will note that misspelling is misspelled.
August 23rd, 2008 at 1:30 pm
What’s also “funny” is that your blog entry is missing quite a lot of [necessary] punctuation! To wit:
1) “an Editors note” — needs an apostrophe btw “editor” and the “s”. It’s a possessive, NOT a plural.
2) “Yeah it is kind of hard to miss the masthead!” How about a comma after “Yeah”?
3) “That’s OK we love typos and spelling mistakes here!” Ditto for “okay” — you need to break up those two clauses.
4) “While the paper said ‘We sure feel silly,’ those of us that specialize in finding typos and misspellings are pretty pleased.” TWO errors here: comma needed after “said” AND … “those of us THAT specialize …” should be “those of us WHO …”, since the relative pronoun that refers to PEOPLE is “who”, with “that” being reserved for inanimate objects. (Not that I don’t know a few humans WHO could be classified as inanimate objects, but I’d still have to refer to them as “who”.
August 23rd, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Anybody else notice that I neglected to close the parens up there?
October 3rd, 2008 at 6:15 am
I’ve no evidence I’m afraid, but for almost a year a UK video trade magazine called Cue Entertainment had its title spelt wrong on its masthead, as “Cue Entertainmnent” (with an extra ‘n’ after the ‘m’.) In their (part) defence, they’d used a very condensed font for the logo which made it difficult to spot, but still…