![Oustanding [sic] stickers](https://hyperborea.org/journal/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/oustanding-1024x1024.jpg)
Yeah, I think I know why these stickers ended up at the dollar store.
Tag: typos
Curse Thee, Auto-Correct!
A few days ago, when I tried to post about the Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre photos from my phone, I ran into a few problems getting Swype to recognize the Bard’s name. It came up with the following:
- Scheherazade
- Directorate
- Chautauqua
- Slashdot (yes, really!)
- Affiliate
- Showstopper
- Qualifier
“Pumkin” Seeds
![Sign: Pumkin seeds [sic]](https://hyperborea.org/journal/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/pumkin-seeds.jpg)
Wait, “Pumkin” seeds? No, I don’t want that!
(I’ve recently become acquainted with Pumkin because some of their educational videos are included with Zoodles, the “kid mode” app I use to keep my two-year-old son from tapping on ads to see what they do and buying downloadable content while using the tablet.)
Goin’ On a Typo Hunt
NPR has an article on The Great Typo Hunt: Two friends cross the country with a Sharpie pen, correcting grammatical and spelling errors in road and shop signs. And there’s a book.
I may need this.
When I was in college in the mid-1990s, I kept a “Bent Offerings” newspaper cartoon on my bulletin board. One person was scrawling “I before E…” on a wall. Another was correcting a menu, muttering, “It’s Brussels Sprouts, not Brussel Sprouts!”. A third was examining someone’s T-shirt, disapprovingly asking, “Is that how they taught you to use an apostrophe?” The strip was captioned, “Roving Gangs of Rogue Proofreaders.”
The appeal hasn’t stopped. You may have noticed I have two categories on this blog devoted to weird/funny signs and mistakes in signs.
Yeah, this sounds like a good bet. Update: I finally read it.
Silly Comment Spammer…
Yesterday I got a strange comment that I thought looked a bit spammy. It was one of those sneaky comments that pretends it’s reporting a problem on your site. The layout looks off in Chrome, or is broken in Firefox, etc. Except, of course, when you look at it in that browser, it’s just fine.
This one claimed that they’d gotten an alert on their firewall when hitting the blog, and could it be related to one of your ads?
Unlikely given how few ads I use, but possible, since I had a third-party poll, some Amazon links, and a banner for Mozilla Plugin Check. Still, the author’s website looked pretty spammy, once I pulled out the extra w, so I put it back in moderation–
Wait, what was that about an extra w?
Well, they’d linked to wwww.[REDACTED].com. Kind of amusing, but I didn’t think anything of it until I had the chance to look for other sites with similar comments…and found that they all pointed to the broken site!