RegretTheError.com has its annual list of the most interesting flubs and corrections made this year. CNN gets top billing for transposing Osama bin Laden and Barack Obama on two different occasions. But some of the deeper material will definitely leave you laughing.
Typo of the year, from the Houston Chronicle – in a photo caption related to Anna Nicole Smith:
“When Redding, a longtime scout for Playboy, discovered Smith, the model could barely right a sentence…â€
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Here’s the correction I can most identify with, from the UK Guardian:
We misspelled the word misspelled twice, as mispelled, in the Corrections and clarifications column on September 26, page 30.
When recipes attack (from the UK Observer)!:
We should clarify that the stir-fried morning glory recipe featured in Observer Food Monthly last week uses an edible morning glory Ipomoea aquatica, found in south east Asia and also known as water spinach. This should not to be confused with the UK Ipomoea, also known as morning glory, which is poisonous.
Best misquote (from the Sydney Morning Herald):
David Marr unfortunately misquoted me in “A fallen leader of faith†(August 4-5). I actually said that I endured the naked beatings, paternal bum caresses etc from Frank Houston, not enjoyed them. I can assure readers that the experience wasn’t pleasurable but painful, both at the time and for some years later.
Read them all here.