Two big brands had red faces in recent days thanks to typos on their commercial products. Here’s how they handled their respective boo-boos.
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Category Archives: Glosso’s gaffes
Whoever wrote whomever?
To whoever wrote the copy for this ad: Why? Why “whomever”?
Technically, it should have been “whoever.” I know: it’s complicated. But fear not; Glosso explains it all in its post from 2012: “Whomever Horton Hears in Whoville.”
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USCIS needs a proofreader …
Only natives or special naturalizaitons need apply.
Photo courtesy of Anon, a newly-minted American citizen
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BoJo’s booboo (and he signed this one)
No world leader can trump Trump in the high stakes world of grammar and spelling errors. But Boris Johnson came fairly close when he flubbed one of the three letters he sent to Brussels a few days ago — and it was in the letter he actually signed that he made his gaffe (so you can’t wriggle out of this one, BoJo). Read it here and see if you can spot the mistake:
A literary “fav” – and a couple of gems – from Meghan Markle
An installment of The Duchess of Sussex’s now defunct lifestyle blog, “The Tig”, has been doing the rounds, thanks to People magazine. Describing in hungry detail what Meghan Markle wrote about five years ago on the subject of “the sweetest tradition [she] can think of,” People quotes liberally from the former actress’s July 2014 post in which she listed her summer literary “favs” and those of some of her Suits co-stars. I caught a couple of little gems in The Duchess’s post — both sparkling prettily in the same paragraph. Can you spot them? (Clue: I wrote about one of them in a very recent Glosso post. The other one just made me giggle.) Here’s the paragraph in question: Continue reading
In the news (May 7)
In recent language, spelling and grammar news: bad spelling at the races; a CIA grammatical blunder; how not to teach grammar; a school changes its name from a bad pun; and more … Continue reading
Language in the news (Nov 19)
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In recent language news: a Dhaka cinema’s insulting typo; a change of definition for some scientific terms; a publicist’s PR fail; and some new Trump spelling rules … Continue reading
Alright, alright, alright …
Seen in a New York cafe earlier this morning. Spot the spelling error. Clue: you can’t really miss it, since it happens 5 times, and it gets bigger and bigger, and bigger, and bigger… 🤕
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#spellingfail * #editorsnightmare * #itsallright
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Porsche needs a proofreader
“Driver’s luxury $120,000 Porsche Cayenne has a VERY obvious mistake … So is it a fake?” So the Daily Mail reported yesterday. “A Porsche Australia spokesman told Daily Mail Australia the company was pretty certain the incorrect spelling of the badge was not a manufacturing error. ‘Our attention to detail and quality control is second to none so I can’t envisage that happening on our end,’ he said.”
“Just to be safe,” the Daily Mail goes on to suggest, “drivers who have own a Porsche Cayenne should probably take a moment to double check their new ride isn’t sporting a spelling error.”
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Ooops …
Yes, everyone needs a proofreader. Even big international airlines do …
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