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Most unfortunate typo ever?...

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GetTheDoorFrank · 08/09/2020 20:58

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

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Catlady6000 · 09/09/2020 21:29

A colleague of mine thought she’d signed off an email to the CEO “regards Sharon”. She only realised after she’d sent it that she’d written ‘retards shaton’. g/t and t/r are really too close on the keyboard Grin

Imatina · 09/09/2020 21:31

My favourite thing about receiving these texts from nursery was the fact they swiftly followed up to clarify the ‘cake’ error...

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xvioletx · 09/09/2020 21:41

I once left a lesson plan and routine for a supply teacher reading “give children a light smack after break time” instead of “light snack” - I was mortified 😂

ddl1 · 09/09/2020 22:15

I just remembered one from a draft of a scientific journal article that I saw -fortunately typos were corrected before publication. It described characteristics of participants in a study, and noted that 14 participants were excluded for not meeting certain criteria. Unfortunately this was stated as 'We executed 14 participants for not meeting the criteria'!

sanityisamyth · 09/09/2020 22:24

I wrote a cinema film review once (was a kinda spoof one for our stables as we'd been for an outing) for Bridget Jones' Dairy ...

Wiggytwiggy · 10/09/2020 20:47

Fist Direct instead of First

Doggybiccys · 10/09/2020 20:53

I once emailed a professor I worked alongside starting with “hi Poof” instead of Prof!!

JontyDoggle37 · 10/09/2020 21:54

Email to about 60 people at work asking for ‘screenshits of the problem’. In bold.

StillMedusa · 10/09/2020 22:17

Nephew's wedding... you know the old school hymn 'Lord of the Dance'?

Well.. the line
'They whipped and they stripped and they hung me on high, And left me there on a cross to die'

had been turned into 'They whipped and they stripped and they hung me on high, And left me there on a cross to DRY' Grin None of us could keep a straight face!

Butteredtoast55 · 10/09/2020 22:17

This thread is comedy gold!

deste · 10/09/2020 22:32

Many years ago working in a college, I gave the new class a small IT test to see what the knew. One of the questions was, something you use to save your work on. A mature student wrote “a floppy dick”. She was mortified.

stoneysongs · 12/09/2020 21:17

This is not a typo but I was on the phone to an airline once and had to read out a reference number - trying to be clever and use the nato alphabet I attempted Y for Yankee but managed to say Y for Wanky. Twice. Colleague next to me was heaving with laughter which didn't help

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