Comments on: Newspaper Misspells its Own Name on the Front Page

By: Alec Tronn

Alec Tronn — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:15:53 +0000

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…

By: Anne Marsh

Anne Marsh — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 20:31:28 +0000

Anybody else notice that I neglected to close the parens up there?

By: Anne Marsh

Anne Marsh — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 20:30:42 +0000

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”.

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:09:33 +0000

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.

By: mike 1255

mike 1255 — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:51:39 +0000

spelling mistake or typeing error ?????????????

By: Me

Me — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:40:51 +0000

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.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:53:09 +0000

Wow thats terrible! Nice find