Newspaper Typos
Newspapers do appear to make a huge number of typos nowadays. But there are some really bad ones out there. Only yesterday, the Daily Mail published the following headline on their website [click to enlarge]:
Of course, that has now been corrected. But for a number of hours, the Daily Mail was proclaiming on their website that Margaret Thatcher was a Lard. Whether or not it got in to print, however, I don’t know.
However, that isn’t as bad as the typo made by this newspaper:
Yes, they spelt their own name wrong. But at least they were contrite the following day, stating “we sure feel silly”.
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