Most unfortunate typo ever?...

[GetTheDoorFrank]

Read this article on the mirror and instantly noticed right away the glaringly obvious error in wording 🙈 surely it wasnt intentional and dont things get proof read any more? Its imo worse because of the article content

Cackle. I'm loving these examples. They make me feel a lot better about some of my own slip ups. At least these days people tend to assume that the spell checker is responsible, it was a lot worse back in the olden days when certain teachers would assume I was doing it on purpose and punish me accordingly. Or course we didn't have dyslexia back then, just shoddy work that didn't deserve to be marked.

Pmsl at see you shorty

I've done the "Retards" one so often I now make a point of checking.

Also I live in a "shire" county and the number of times I have written (not the actual county) "Derbyshite" which, considering where I live is not that inaccurate!

Not a typo, but I once heard a headteacher talking about her school's INSET days. Unfortunately, what she actually said was 'my school's incest days'!

And there was of course James Naughtie's famous radio spoonerism about Jeremy Hunt the Culture Secretary!

Its not a word, so it would surely have been picked up by the spell check if it was an error.

Wrote my DHs CV.
He was good at accunting !!!
Didn't get the job 😬

I don't think things care proof read anymore. If They are then the standard has hugely dropped. Most news articles are littered with glaring errors these days.

For God's sake. Care is obviously are. It's fucking catching

"Please find enclosed my floppy dick".

From a non-native English speaker, back in the day when DNA sequences were sent on disc.

A friend of mine worked in the marketing dept of well-known bank. She signed off a multi-thousand batch of personalised letters addressed to the 'accunt holder'.

She's still there (but not in marketing..)

Oh gosh some of these 😭

Some of these stories are marvellous. My mum used to use dictation software for work and it corrected 'Mr Smith is aware of the situation' to 'Mr Smith's underwear situation'.

Someone once invited me to their house for 'cocktails and nipples'.

I never did fathom if it was an unfortunate Freudian slip, or the kind of party where you all throw your car keys into the fruit bowl.

I have to take great care when typing the surname "White", as my fingers always try to replace the W with an S!!

Emailing A candidate fir an interview, enquiring about their recent wok experience... the candidate was Chinese. Luckily noticed it before pressing send. 😳🤭😮

I once replied to an email from a rather slimey colleague (old job fortunately) that I was too busy to take on a new task that day but that I would look at it the next day. I heard a roar of laughter from down the corridor after I pressed send. I had actually typed that I was too busty to do it!

We had a memo from school asking us to ensure the children brought their willies on the farm trip.

In The Times, years ago when Ted Heath was Prime Minister, they did a report on his visit to Paris with the wonderful faux pas - "and in the afternoon, Mr Heath will be visiting the loo" (should have been Louvre).

I had to type an estimate for my husband, it was a new company and a huge project.

The company was Yellow Arts Theatre and I typed Yellow Arse 😬

This was 20 odd years ago and I still cringe husband now does invoices himself 🤣

I work in social housing and a repairs colleague once issued a job to a gas engineer with the instruction to “insert dick into meter” rather than insert disc into meter. She never lived it down.

oh crap but i did laugh

I once sent a package from work to our repairs workshop, which was in an old warehouse. Accidentally addressed it (by hand so I can't even blame the computer) to "25 The Whorehouse". I didn't live that one down the whole three years I worked there!

Haha Owlypants - I love the way it fits the context 🤣