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Old 06-06-2010, 08:03 AM
 
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We have contracts and certain legal documents at work that include the word "Therefor." Invariably, someone tries to stick an "e" at the end of it.

 
Old 06-06-2010, 12:30 PM
 
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And another one from this morning's paper: someone complaining about their cable service and problems they were having with "paperview" programs. Indeed.

C-D totally needs a smilie that's banging its head against the wall. It would get so much use on the grammar threads.
 
Old 06-07-2010, 07:32 PM
 
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And another one from this morning's paper: someone complaining about their cable service and problems they were having with "paperview" programs. Indeed.

C-D totally needs a smilie that's banging its head against the wall. It would get so much use on the grammar threads.
NO! Tell me that's not true...and bringing on the banging-head smiley.

But wait a minute. Are you telling me the NEWSPAPER printed it that way????
 
Old 06-07-2010, 10:33 PM
 
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Old 06-07-2010, 10:51 PM
 
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On my travels around this and other message forums, I've come across:

People working on a stradegy (to get a job, find a date... whatever);

People expressing their amazement with the phrase low and behold;

People wishing their significant other good riddens;

People carrying out do diligence on a project;

People who go site-seeing on vacation;

People who are having prostrate troubles;

People who know someone with Oldtimer's disease;

and - my favourite - people who explain that "he didn't use those words per say".

I see these errors time and time again!
 
Old 06-07-2010, 11:57 PM
 
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Here's another one I just discovered:

bonified

...

...

Yes, you guessed it.... bona fide.
 
Old 06-08-2010, 07:18 PM
 
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NO! Tell me that's not true...and bringing on the banging-head smiley.

But wait a minute. Are you telling me the NEWSPAPER printed it that way????
Unfortunately, yes. I don't think our local paper requires their reporters to be able to spell or proofread. I should start keeping an eye out for the really egregious typos; as it is I notice them and just quietly despair and move on.
 
Old 06-09-2010, 01:19 PM
 
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Unfortunately, yes. I don't think our local paper requires their reporters to be able to spell or proofread. I should start keeping an eye out for the really egregious typos; as it is I notice them and just quietly despair and move on.
I share your pain.
 
Old 06-09-2010, 02:28 PM
 
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Unfortunately, yes. I don't think our local paper requires their reporters to be able to spell or proofread. I should start keeping an eye out for the really egregious typos; as it is I notice them and just quietly despair and move on.
Funny you should mention that, because the last time I was in south Florida, the number of typos I saw in the Miami Herald was nothing short of frightening. It was so bad, I was thinking that knowledge of proofreading must be strictly prohibited in their offices.
 
Old 06-09-2010, 03:57 PM
 
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Hand-printed sign taped to a circuit machine at the gym that wasn't working: "I'M BROKE."

(I REALLY can't take it anymore!)
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