Buzz Playstation 2 game

Yes, odd as it may sound, the above computer game had a spelling error on it! I can't even remember the question now but they spelt 'fascinate' as 'fasonate' which just isn't acceptable really. I'm sure the game must have been checked and checked again for its facts but obviously not for its spellings!

My Memory email

Another email mistake has shown itself but this time from My Memory. The error was only in the email headline and doesn't appear again throughout the body of the email:

Flash Sale - Must End Mighnight Tonight

As you can see, midnight has not been spelled correctly. An easy mistake to make that I'm sure everyone has done at some point or another where you start spelling the end of the word at another point within that word, but as always it's a case that these errors are being missed before being sent out en masse.

 

FairFX email

I received an email from FairFX today telling me about their refer-a-friend offer they have on right now. I was almost at the end of the email before I spotted the error:

Just to remember to explain to the people that your share your voucher code or link with that we’ll waive the normal new card order fee of £9.95* PLUS give them an extra £2.50** if they load more than £250 in their first transaction.

The first highlighted word above shouldn't be there, an accidental addition to the sentence.

The second highlighted word should read 'you' rather than 'your'. Another simple mistake.

Come on people, where are your checkers?

Error - Daily Mail website

This error was sent to me by my friend Carol - thanks :) I think it should be just big enough for you to read - I hope. Well it's the best you're going to get :p

The bottom of the picture is the funniest bit; "done but with errors on the page!" Lol - don't we know it? Does that come as standard at the bottom of all Daily Mail articles?

Ok, the article in general isn't very good, a few poor bits. Although technically it makes sense, the following is badly written: 'The general point is very clear in this country: that is that it takes a pretty serious crime to get yourself sent to prison' 'That is that it???' doesn't sound so great, though as Carol pointed out to me, it probably does sound better when spoken.

One thing I wasn't sure on was 'uncharted territory' as soon as I saw it thought it should be unchartered territory' but when I googled it, it seemed to be happy with both uses so that has made me doubt myself. As I cannot come to a conclusion about this, I don't think it is fair to call it an error, but I'm going to leave it here in case anyone can shed any light on the situation.

The last and most obvious mistake I noticed was 'And as a result you have broken the contract with society to such a serious extent that you have lost all of those rights: your that you have lost all of those rights: your liberty and your right to vote' Can I put that up for the award of worst sentence ever? Bad use of colons is the smallest mistake (probably should be a semi colon or comma, but then again had the sentence been written properly, who knows what the sentence structure would be) and then the rest of it is awful - they look like they have just copied/cut and paste the sentence in and ended up repeating themselves.

Thanks again to Carol - keep sending them in everyone!

Error - NHS Discounts Email

A culprit yet again! Tut tut

Make sure you use you benefits and visit NHS Discounts electricals for the latest prices. Products change weekly

The above sentence should read 'Make sure you use your benefits...'

Silly mistake

Typing Error - BBC website

I think I'm starting to notice these errors all the time now, even without intentionally searching for them - as with this one. I was just reading a news article for the information as opposed to scouring it for errors and came across these 2 errors:

"I truly believe government is being too restrictive in his particular matter," said Robert Jackson, a Harlem Democrat. "It's a totalitarian society that's going to have this type of restrictions." See the full article here

Error number 1 is definitely a typing error as I'm sure the speaker would have actually said 'in this particular matter' rather than 'in his particular matter' as written above.

Error number 2 - I'm not sure whether this is a typing error again or whether Robert Jackson said it this way. The last sentence should ideally read "It's a totalitarian society that's going to have this type of restriction" (without an s on the end) OR "It's a totalitarian society that's going to have these types of restrictions" (which requires a few additional changes).

We will never know the answer to error 2 but I won't be losing any sleep over it :)

Spelling Error - Groupon email

Hello again

Today's error was from an email I received from Groupon:

Organic Vegatable Delivery

This was part of the title of the email. Apart from the fact that 'VEGETABLE' is spelt wrong, there was nothing in the email about organic vegetable delivery, whatever way they spelt it! I noticed however that in today's Groupon email, the same service was advertised but they had reduced the title to organic veg delivery. Who knows whether that is because they realised the spelling mistake, or they were just trying to use less characters.