Amid a flurry of misspellings, test yourself
In the past 10 days or so, we’ve seen some pretty embarrassing misspellings. Mitt Romney’s team was behind the now famous misspelling of the word “America” on an iPhone app (though it is hard not to wonder how many people at Apple missed “Amercia” during the app approval process). Then we learned that diplomas distributed at a
(Brendan McDermid/REUTERS)Maryland high school featured a misspelling of the word “program”and had to be reprinted.
(Brendan McDermid/REUTERS)Maryland high school featured a misspelling of the word “program”and had to be reprinted.
And there’s more: In May, the online magazine Slate misspelled the names Kanye West, H.L. Mencken and Edgar Allan Poe in the same week, according to this story on the Poynter Institute Web site.
Last year, when Osama bin Laden was killed, a number of news organizations mistakenly said Obama had been killed (including,