Archive for Errors
Some years back, I saw an employment ad for a major computer company in which all the text said "Lorem ipsum." Clearly someone was supposed to fill in actual copy,...
Best spam subject line of the week: RE: BE CAREFUL OF THE HUDLOOMS I thought perhaps a HUDLOOM was a weaving device containing a Heads-Up Display. Or perhaps some kind...
Something I've been seeing unusually often lately: use of "-im" words as singular. The "-im" suffix, in words derived from Hebrew, is generally a masculine plural, as far as I...
Time for another installment in my Words easily confused series. (For more recent installments, see the errors category of this blog.) As usual, an asterisk indicates an incorrect-usage example. I...
A CNN article this morning, talking about Gov. Tim Kaine of Virginia, notes: "Kaine could help Obama fall in the Democrats' column for the first time in 44 years." Presumably...
Cute typo in New York Times movie page: Two lifelong plutonic friends, strapped for cash and in debt, decide to make a porno. --from the page for Zack and Miri...
Entertaining mistake, from a statement by Barack Obama about Edwards dropping out of the race: John and Elizabeth Edwards have always believed deeply ... that two Americans can become one....
This is part 2 of my latest list; see previous entry for part 1. These ones are simple--they're generally typing errors (where someone knows the right word and spelling but...
It's been over a year since last time I did one of these (for previous installments, see my Words easily confused category); I've been bogged down by uncertainty about which...