choking on your coffee is not the best way to wake up.
as i was catching up on the morning’s headlines on google news – this one caught my eye.
fYi – there is no word called fule
toi

copy editor - is not someone who copies from the net and pastses pastes on-line :)

I hope that this didn’t get printed, and is only there in the on-line edition.

And finally, to err is human. But, to put it on-line without checking is asking for trouble :)

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9 Responses to “Typos as Headlines”

  1. Mahendra says:

    Last night, TIMES NOW had a headline (at 9 PM prime time) that spelled “VULNERABLWLE”.

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  3. kusublakki says:

    Haha! Never noticed such errors to date, but henceforth I’ll keep my eyes open :)

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  4. Hahaha, that’s pretty hilarious. I’m a grammar Nazi, so this headline in TOI made me cringe violently:

    http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Bangalore/Why-cant-register-English-medium-schools-HC-asks-government/articleshow/4664176.cms

    Clearly TOI needs a better proof-reading team…

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  5. arunk says:

    This is what would be called as “Headline FAIL” on failblog.org :)

    Arun

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  6. yayaver says:

    standard of journalism was quite low of TOI , now the bar of english also comes down… in times of recession, who is so careless about his/her job [:D]

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  8. abhishek says:

    to err is human, to err and share it is a crime!

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