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Wednesday, 08 October 2008

Newspaper misspells own name

24/07/2008 5:56:00 PM.  | Dominic Brock
American newspaper Valley News has set a new media standard for spelling mistakes, somehow managing to misspell its own name on its front page masthead.

The New Hampshire paper called itself the “Valley Newss” on Monday in a remarkable blunder, with the editor understandably sheepish the next day.

“Readers may have noticed that the Valley News misspelled its own name on yesterday’s front page,” an “Editor’s Note” read in the next day’s edition.

“Given that we routinely call on other institutions to hold themselves accountable for the mistakes, let us say for the record: We sure feel silly.”

Online blog Regret the Error – which monitors media spelling mistakes – has already named the Valley Newss as the favourite to take out its Typo of the Year award.

COMMENTS

Thursday, 24 July 2008

LiveNews misspells the word misspell as "misspel" when trying to point out spelling error of New Hampshire newspaper.

Posted by: Joe User, Somewhere

 

Thursday, 24 July 2008

Now someone should create an article "Online Newspaper misspells the word misspell as "misspel" when trying to point out spelling error of New Hampshire newspaper."

Posted by: gert vervaet, lochristi

 

Friday, 25 July 2008

Thanks, Joe, Gert. Although we've now fixed it, LIVENEWS.com.au did indeed originally misspell 'misspell'. To quote the Valley Newss: "We sure feel silly."

Posted by: Anil Lambert-Patel, LIVENEWS.com.au Editor

 

Friday, 25 July 2008

being Pedantic must suck?

Posted by: Nick Again, Maryborough

 
 

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