Funniest Typos
October 5, 2009 by Allison Boyer
Filed under Jobs
I’m the queen of typos. When I’m writing, I type so fast that the letters just fly off my fingers, and since I’m not a very good proofreaders of my own work, many of those typos go unnoticed unless someone else points them out for me. Thank god I have a great editor on hand to read through most of my work. Still, typos sometimes get through.
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Once, I was typing up a document for my great-aunt. She wanted send her doctor an official letter about something or other, but didn’t even have a typewriter, let alone anything capable of work processing. So, she hand-wrote the letter an asked me if I would type it for her. No problem; it took all of ten minutes. She read through the letter to make sure everything looked ok, and a few minutes later, she hesitantly came back to me, asking me to fix a mistake.
Apparently, I typed ass when the word was add.
My great-aunt’s face as seven shades of red, but I just had to crack up. To date, I think that was my funniest typo, though sometimes I do get notes from my editor that simply say “wtf?” because he has NO IDEA what I mean.
What’s been your funniest typo? Tell me by assing adding a comment below!
I simply have to ask . . . were the typos in this post intentional/ironic or just missed? :)
My recurring typo, which always makes me laugh, is reslut and conslut, instead of result and consult.
My all time most embarrassing typo happened when I was working at a Certified Public Accountant office. When I typed the accountant’s name and his position title, I typed it as shown below:
Yours truly,
John James Doe
Certified PUBIC Accountant
Fortunately, John James Doe spotted my embarrassing typo before he signed the letter and luckily before the client received the letter!! It took me a long time to live that typo down! (=;
Oh No!!!
Would you believe I just spelled my own NAME wrong on my previous comment! No kidding . . . it truly was a TYPO! I am sooooo embarrassed! )-;
Years ago, part of my job was supervising a student computer lab. One day a rather attractive female student asked me to demonstrate how to use our school’s e-mail software.
I intended to send myself a message that read, “testing” or something similar. I type “tes” and was interrupted with a question from another student. I unwittingly restarted typing while talking to that other student, but then stopped again. Suddenly, the first student burst into laughter. I looked at the screen and saw, “testes” for all the world to see. I wanted to crawl under a rock.