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

Twenty years ago as a dental student, and fairly new to spell checks, I wrote an essay ( and submitted it as part of my end of year exams) on the topic of "The muscles of mastication".
The spell checker changed it to "The muscles of masturbation", and i submitted it without realising 😱

In a previous job I emailed my manager a question to which the reply was "no you cunt" I replied with "I'm hoping that's a typo?" His reply was "what typo?" - followed by lots of grovelling when the penny finally dropped

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!

Funnily enough, there was a big, major sign on the A52 (on the Brian Clough Way section) that somebody 'altered' so that it did actually say "Welcome to Derbyshite". It had definitely been done deliberately - it wasn't just a dirt smudge or anything - and they'd done quite a good job of matching the original font and background.

It was like that for months, maybe even a year or more, before it was eventually restored.

@BrigitsBigKnickers

According to my auto correct I am a Teacher of the Dead! 😳

I bet that is really hard work!

Submitted an essay for my MSc. where I accidentally wrote "climactic" instead of "climatic" effects. Mortified. The lecturer highlighted my mistake with several question & exclamation marks!

I have also been on the receiving end of an email "sorry for any incontinence caused" at work, which gave me a good laugh

I used to work in the Forest of Dean, one supplier always addressed letters to Forest of Dead.

Looked at the menu online of our local Chinese restaurant we walked past, not sure I want to go now

The thing with the 'blacklash' thing, though, is that it does appear to be an actual legitimate term, used to mean pretty much what the article suggested in context (depending on your personal viewpoint). It may well be a typo - possibly the person writing it had 'Black Lives Matter' in their head and their brain misfired; but if I'd read it in the Guardian or Independent instead of the Mirror, I would automatically assume that they'd used the term deliberately.

*Sort of related - most places have wised up and put hyphens in their URL to avoid any unfortunate misreadings.

This guy hasn't..

askdrrobert.dr-robert.com/findtherapist.html*

There is an estate agent comparison website called getagent.co.uk which sounds more like a posh dating website to me.

I texted my daughter (she is 18) that I will buy her something after I get laid. I wanted to say paid, not laid🙄. The letter "P" is right above the letter "L" on my keyboard. I was so embarrassed.

Someone I know sent a letter at work to 'Dear Tiny' (it was supposed to be Tony).

Tony was a dwarf.

Someone at work once distributed something to the whole company with the word pubic instead of public. She was a patronising cow that rubbed most people up the wrong way (to the extent of tears at times), so it caused much merriment.

I don't think that Mirror article had a typo at all - I think they're being naughty under the pretence of making a typo.

I was once on a conference which included a coach trip. The person leading the tour stood up with the mike as we got ready to leave and announced, 'We're on a shite schedule today'.

My first job after leaving college was with a civil service department where I had typed out a compulsory purchase notice which was then reproduced on a stencil machine. Instead of writing "there will be a public inquiry", I typed "pubic inquiry".

Cam2020 - maybe we worked for the same department!!

@Cam2020

Someone at work once distributed something to the whole company with the word pubic instead of public. She was a patronising cow that rubbed most people up the wrong way (to the extent of tears at times), so it caused much merriment.

I don't think that Mirror article had a typo at all - I think they're being naughty under the pretence of making a typo.

In a former job we had a document circulated in which the head of public health had been mislabeled the head of pubic health - fortunately he saw the funny side. But even told there was an error most people couldn't spot it. A colleague in the same work place sent an email asking people to contact him if they had any queers instead or queries. Than did not go down well!

@BrigitsBigKnickers

According to my auto correct I am a Teacher of the Dead! 😳

Now that is a rare gift, I salute you! No idea how measure progress against targets? Must be tricky 😉

*Instead of

After a shit day this thread has just made me cry from laughing so hard 😂

That reminds me of my old favourite.NET forum

Expertsexchange. 🤣

The school newsletter said the children had to take their willies so they could play on the field. Presumably they also did willy wanging on sports day

I’m deaf and the number of times I’ve nearly announced my own demise . . . My best one was pointing out that someone had left the L out of ‘public’ in a leaflet. If you proofread a lot there are some words you learn to watch out for and that’s one of them.

Our school newsletter one included the glorious line 'I am sure the children are looking forward to getting their willies out this weekend' instead of wellies
As the person who wrote it I can assure you it was absolutely auto-corrected and not deliberate!

Roaring at this thread!

Not a typo, but during a visit to the local diy store, I was trying to find what I needed, a chap asked if he could help me, my response ... ‘I need a screw..’

Quite a few rumbles of laughter ...

From local authority minutes circa 1964