American TV News programmes

Today is the day the world is finally rid of Osama Bin Laden. Two errors surrounding this story have been brought to my attention today - one from my friend Carol Gillies and the other via Twitter @SethGreen.

After years of talking about the man, you'd think the news people would have learned to spell his name, and more importantly not confuse him with the President of the United States:

According to comments underneath this twitpic, this error was left on screen for over an hour, leading some people to think this was an intentional error. However I cannot see the motivation behind this and can see no reason why this would be the case. To be fair Obama and Osama are close spellings, but it can't be a typo really as the b and the s are a fair distance away from each other on a keyboard. It's also possible that it was meant to read 'Reports: Obama: Bin Laden is dead' as though quoting what the President had said in his speech. I don't think that would be the best option either really, having two words following each other, both with colons. However it should read, it's not correct as it stands.

Through Twitter I noticed that @Seth Green had posted a still of another error on a news programme:

As you can see 'Usama' has been written in error and should read 'Osama.' I particularly liked Seth Green's tweet in respect to this:' Huh. No wonder it took so long- all this time we were looking for 'Osama'' It did make me laugh.

As you've no doubt noticed, both these errors come from Fox News, which according to some of the comments on the website, isn't surprising. Obviously I cannot comment on that, not being a viewer of Fox News.

Tesco.com website

This is a spelling error I found recently and I only found it because I also spelt the word incorrectly! lol How ironic :) Anyway I was searching the website to find out the price of the dark chocolate cocoa powder from Cadbury's called Bournville cocoa powder. Now I just typed it in how I thought it was spelt, which was Bourneville and Tesco gave me approximately 4 products based on that spelling.

However, one thing I noticed which the copy writer failed to (despite having the picture next to them) is that the word is spelt (obviously correctly lol) on the product image - so how can you get it wrong when it's there looking at you? I always find this happens with my name in work - people will email me and spell my name incorrectly and sometimes even call me something completely different, despite the fact that my name will have popped up in Outlook, I also have my name in my business signature - just pay attention people! Anyway sorry, I digress...photo below:

Digital Spy website

www.digitalspy.co.uk is one of my favourite websites, as I can read all about my favourite TV shows (and hopefully manage to avoid spoilers at the same time).

The latest error I have come across is from this website and was the main article on the USTV news page (it probably won't be now as it's constantly changing).

As you can see, underneath the headline is says the 'chatshow hots's birthday. Clearly this was meant to read 'chatshow host's birthday' - a simple typo to make, though sometimes I do wonder if these web page and email sending people actually just type it ASAP and press send the second they're finished without bothering to read over it? To be fair, I'm guilty of that, mostly on my other blog, but my words are only going to be seen by 35 people or thereabouts! Not there for the masses to see.