The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time by Jeff Deck; Benjamin D. Herson

Author:Jeff Deck; Benjamin D. Herson
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Travel
ISBN: 9780307591074
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
Published: 2010-08-03T18:11:15+00:00

Then we stopped.

LONLEY? asked the chalkboard. YOU GOT A FRIEND IN BOOZE.

Josh was the one who’d pointed out the sign. We peered at the specimen, and I felt a thin rivulet of confidence feed into my heart’s murky pool. I had done plenty of chalkboards on this trip. We could fell this typo for sure. There was an apostrophe mistake on the other side, too. Josh gave me a determined nod. I smiled. After all we’d been through, I could count on him as a hardened veteran of the League. He said, “Nobody’s looking right now. Let’s just do it—give me half of that chalk, and I’ll do one side and you do the other.”

“Sure,” I said. “You get the apostrophe one, and I’ll do lonley.”

“What?”

“Lonley,” I repeated, confused now. “The typo you so astutely pointed out on this side of the board.”

Josh peered at the chalkboard. “Oh yeah, that’s a good one!”

“Uh … what were you looking at, if not that?”

He indicated the next line down. “See, there. You got a friend. Should be You’ve got a friend.”

“That’s not a typo. They’re trying to be slangy.”

“It’s not right, though.”

“It’s a style thing. You have to allow room for self-expression.”

Josh shrugged. “All right, let’s do our corrections.”

He went around and added the apostrophe needed on the other side. As carefully as I could, I converted the e to an l and vice versa in LONLEY on my side. When Josh came back, he decided to add his own correction below that, regardless of what I thought. Thus, to my dismay, a ’VE appeared, like a dark djinn summoned to fulfill the wishes of the black-hearted.

“Dammit, Josh!” I said. “That wasn’t a typo. For real. Take that out.” He refused. And then it was clear to me: an insurgent had somehow entered the ranks of TEAL, right under my marker-flecked nose.

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