Typo Hunt

By Miss Cellania in Blogs & Internet on May 22, 2008 at 8:36 am

Typo Hunt Across America is the blog of the Typo Eradication Advancement League (TEAL). They spent the last couple of months not only finding and pointing out typos on public signs, they also corrected them or tried to get them corrected (with varying degrees of success). Now the League is asking for your stories of public typo correction. Therefore, I found myself checking this post over and over in case they find a typo here! Link -via Metafilter

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erik
May 22nd, 2008 at 8:56 am
Sounds like a bunch of grammar nazis!
annemarie
May 22nd, 2008 at 9:13 am
I’m guessing the people that are a part of TEAL are white just because of this website:
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/99-grammar/

they must crap their pants when they get a txt message!
drunkenass
May 22nd, 2008 at 10:02 am
$6.99 for a watermelon? I hope that is part of the typo . . .
Me
May 22nd, 2008 at 10:05 am
Haha, I hesitate to mention this, because it would cause a lot of aggravation for the crew members if people started bugging them to fix everything, but at Trader Joe’s all the signs are handmade by an art team. EVERY SIGN for every product, so there are bound to be mistakes. Most common, I’ve found, is a Q instead of a G, Quacamole, Baquettes. I don’t fix them, though, I think it’s pretty cute.
Miss Cellania
May 22nd, 2008 at 10:15 am
Art team? At most grocery stores, every sign for every item is made by the workers on the floor. If a grocery store has an “art team”, they should be held to a higher standard.
caitlin13
May 22nd, 2008 at 10:54 am
Ahahaha trying to catch their typos is exactly what I’d do. I like what they’re doing. Typos always annoy me. In fact.. Hey I might have one!
Ron Moses
May 22nd, 2008 at 11:03 am
I managed to convince my local supermarket to change all their “10 items or less” signs to read “10 items or fewer”. Unfortunately they did it with masking tape and a Sharpie. But hey, it’s something.
CheeseDuck
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:21 pm
Taht r teh awsumenzz.
Alex
May 22nd, 2008 at 3:11 pm
We need a tpyo hunt on Neatorama
Alex
May 22nd, 2008 at 3:12 pm
D’oh!
ted
May 22nd, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Geez, if you read their stuff, they actually go around with business cards and ask people to correct their typos – sounds about as pleasant as being visited by Jehovah’s Witnesses.

I believe that’s how the Knights Templar got started.
Shelby
May 22nd, 2008 at 9:47 pm
thanks TEAL for reminding people to respect the English language (sorry my comma key isn’t working; I know there should be some in this post)

anyone who thinks they’re going overboard needs to read a book now and then
Barbwire
May 22nd, 2008 at 11:12 pm
It’s kind to call many of these errors typos, when they are simply presenting the stupidity of the writer. I cringe reading the comments of many blogs. Why can’t people learn to write decent English? What is so terribly difficult about the difference between the verbs “to lie” and “to lay”? Oh, well. These errors are getting so common, clearly more and more people don’t even see the mistake.
Thomas
May 23rd, 2008 at 2:04 am
The one that gets me is public restrooms marked, “Mens.”
Bart
May 23rd, 2008 at 2:31 am
In that entry for the “Graphite Sculpture”, they fixed a typo, but left in “San Francicso”.
GREG WOOD
Aug 23rd, 2008 at 11:17 am
I am reasonably certain that the word “typo” connotes
an accidental strike of the key, not an intentional
decision to spell a word incorrectly.

What these guys are talking about are not “typos”,
they are grammatical and/or spelling mistakes.

I personally find the misuse of apostrophes to be more
bothersome and offensive than spelling errors, which can happen to anyone(except, of course, to me…).

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