Comments on: The World’s Most Expensive Typos

By: Danny

Danny — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:39:04 +0000

While Page and Anderson were in Page’s office, the two were attempting to come up ” for” ( Should this be (with ) ? a name for the would-be search behemoth.

By: Father Harmony

Father Harmony — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:12:54 +0000

In September 2006, A trader at Mizuho Securities accidentally sold 610,000 shares in J-Com Co. (a job recruiting company) for 1 yen a piece, instead of 1 share at 610,000 yen. Unable to cancel the order Mizuho Securities has lost roughly $340 million as a result. Just think how lucky you would have been to purchase a few pieces of this stock! Attributed to “fat-finger” syndrome, which is stock trader slang for making large blunders, the trader’s name has not been made public (likely for security purposes). When Mizuho contacted the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the latter cited a glitch in its system that made this trade irrevocable. Discussions have occurred with the possibility of Mizuho and the TSE some how sharing the loss, but still no agreement has been reached.

“some how” should be somehow.

By: Frieda

Frieda — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 11:10:40 +0000

wish I could get paid a dime for every incorrectly placed quote mark and period at the end of a “quote.”

By: Regis

Regis — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:59:15 +0000

Of course, what a great site and informative posts, I will add backlink – bookmark this site? Regards,

By: Jon Dough

Jon Dough — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:27:50 +0000

“I laugh out loud at how many people mispelled one of the words …” Just to inform everyone, since we are talking typos here, that ‘misspelled’ is the most misspelled word in the English language. Simply a fun tidbit that floats though my cranium with all the other random stuff.

By: Jeni

Jeni — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:20:38 +0000

eye luv the post; very interesting: can”t belief all of thees peopel are so quick to corect though!! Jon syas: “My mistake, Judy.. Wordsmith corrected Mark there. I thought it was Mark’s correction of someone else’s error. Whoa, do I need to get a life!” Good advice, Jon. good advice. p.S. Should’nt it be John? CRAP! I have become one of the masses!!!

By: Paul Logasa Bogen II

Paul Logasa Bogen II — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:57:38 +0000

Don’t forget Oprah’s name was a typo too. It was suppose to be Orpah from the bible but someone at the hospital she was born switched the letters accidentally. Would Orpah been as successful with a harder to say name?

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:07:45 +0000

This would be really cool, if you showed the actual typos. Also you have lots of typos. Lazy.

By: Laura Bain

Laura Bain — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 15:36:48 +0000

Here’s a little more explanation about the Rogers comma error, from the Globe and Mail article mentioned earlier: “The validity of the contract and the millions of dollars at stake all came down to one point — the second comma in the sentence.

Had it not been there, the right to cancel wouldn’t have applied to the first five years of the contract and Rogers would be protected from the higher rates it now faces.”

By: Kakes

Kakes — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 02:55:29 +0000

Google is actually a number. 1 followed by 100 zeros.