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BS: Funny Yptos (Typos)

11 Aug 05 - 11:48 AM (#1540023)
Subject: BS: Funny Yptos (Typos)
From: wysiwyg

"Ypto" is, itself, I believe, a typo of Amos' long ago.

Yesterday I cracked myself up. I'm webmastering our parish website-- good thing I proofrede, because about that raffle-- I had typed "Sinners need not be present"! (Winners)

And in a PM today, "fifference."

What are some of yours, or some you've seen and gotten a laugh out of? Not the timeworn bulletin bloopers, please-- fresh stuff from your life.

~Susan


11 Aug 05 - 11:55 AM (#1540033)
Subject: RE: BS: Funny Yptos (Typos)
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull

i never make tipos.


11 Aug 05 - 12:19 PM (#1540072)
Subject: RE: BS: Funny Yptos (Typos)
From: wysiwyg

Of cource n9t!

~S~


11 Aug 05 - 02:43 PM (#1540244)
Subject: RE: BS: Funny Yptos (Typos)
From: Amos

Your are, of course, referring to yptophargical errors.

(Just to use the proper terminology).

A


11 Aug 05 - 04:39 PM (#1540393)
Subject: RE: BS: Funny Yptos (Typos)
From: HuwG

Not really a typo, but a friend worked for the National Coal Board (NCB) in South Yorkshire, in the far-off days when Britain had a coal industry.

She glanced at someone else's work and read that some unfortunate miner's widow's concessionary coal allowance was to be reduced to 5 tons "per anum".


11 Aug 05 - 04:48 PM (#1540399)
Subject: RE: BS: Funny Yptos (Typos)
From: JohnInKansas

For those in the legal trades, there are special dictionaries and spell checkers available whose most significant and obvious change is the complete and total expungement of the word "trail."

(It's very easy to add new words to most spellcheck dictionaries, but almost impossible to delete one from the base dictionary that comes with your wp program.)

John


15 Sep 08 - 06:29 PM (#2441505)
Subject: RE: BS: Funny Yptos (Typos)
From: Genie

Just came across this headline (at www.620kpoj.com):

"Hopefuls pack Rose Garden for chance to sign at Blazers game"

Now, I think it's great if signers accompany the main vocalists at events like basketball games, for the sake of the hearing-impaired. But since the accompanying photo was of a young woman holding a mic up to her mouth, I sort of got the impression that wasn't the type of talent they were auditioning for.


Related thread: Favorite Typos and Other Wackiness


16 Sep 08 - 01:13 AM (#2441784)
Subject: RE: BS: Funny Yptos (Typos)
From: Backwoodsman

A Estate Agent's brochure I once saw described the master bedroom of the house in question as having an 'en-shite shower'.


16 Sep 08 - 02:48 AM (#2441806)
Subject: RE: BS: Funny Yptos (Typos)
From: Georgiansilver

For many it's not the typos but their smelling!....... sorry spelling!


16 Sep 08 - 03:07 AM (#2441813)
Subject: RE: BS: Funny Yptos (Typos)
From: Genie

You mean like when people type that a bicyclist was "peddling her ass" off?


16 Sep 08 - 09:33 AM (#2441970)
Subject: RE: BS: Funny Yptos (Typos)
From: Bryn Pugh

I had one tutorial response on the Pubic [sic] Order Act 1936 -

"it is illegal to wear a blackberry in public".

(black beret).

My fellow lawyers on the 'Cat will be interested to learn that there is a Tort of Pissing Off.

(suspect that one was deliberate . . . )


16 Sep 08 - 10:57 AM (#2442050)
Subject: RE: BS: Funny Yptos (Typos)
From: bubblyrat

I saw a funny typo some years ago, about a soldier's funeral where,apparently,the "Last Post" was sounded by two burglars !


16 Sep 08 - 11:15 AM (#2442061)
Subject: RE: BS: Funny Yptos (Typos)
From: wysiwyg

Thanks to age and stroke-brain, I forgot I started this thread. When I saw the thread name I thought, "Isn't that odd, someone else uses the same word I do! Better go see...."

:~

~S~


17 Sep 08 - 06:32 AM (#2442900)
Subject: RE: BS: Funny Yptos (Typos)
From: Mo the caller

I have a habit of doubling the wrong letter.

Chhers