Funny stories

A few years back, I wrote an article for a project management website. In the final draft I submitted for publication, I left an error: Scum master instead of Scrum master. How could I have missed such an embarrassing typo? Now I know: When we read our own work, we don’t focus on the words themselves but on the message we’re trying to communicate, so our typos tend to hang on until they meet an objective eye.

My job as a freelance proofreader is to seek and destroy typos in other people’s work, but I have a nerdy hobby: I collect the funniest ones and then write blurbs inspired by them.

I presented the first half of the funniest typos of 2017 in another blog post. Here’s the second half:

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As a freelance proofreader, I get the chance to see all kinds of typos—many dull, a few irreverent, and some hilarious—before they reach the reader. Although it’s fun to correct misspellings, some are too creative to be buried under red markups forever.

To make you smile, here is the first half of the lineup of the most creative typos I came across in 2017:

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Typos happen. But when they’re particularly creative—like the seven typos I wrote about earlier this year—they deserve the spotlight. Here are five more illustrated typos to make you smile. Read More

Everybody makes typos—just remember to proofread your document before publishing it. You never know what misspellings you may find, because sometimes keystrokes conspire to create hilarious expressions such as these: Read More