Eggcorn: shoring up problems for the future

I came across this in raw copy recently. I'm not sure whether it's a typo or an eggcorn (and I still hate that term), but it made me laugh:

this strategy is shoring up problems for the future

It should, obviously, be 'storing' rather than 'shoring'. I quite like it this way though.

Editorial tools: not entirely free from typos

In my job, I use a whole range of editorial tools. And those tools contain a whole range of spelling and grammar mistakes.

I appreciate that developers aren't sub editors, so all I can do is smile. Here are screengrabs of a couple of my favourites (the latter, I must point out, is now fixed):

Photo special: downstairs dinning area

It can get very loud in Burger King:



I took this snap in London a while back. Again, I don't get excited over run-of-the-mill typos or spelling mistakes, but unintentionally amusing ones like this are right up my street...

I think you've got the wrong word...

Here are some sentences taken from copy submitted to the subs' desk over the past few months. The theme is 'wrong words', whether they are malapropisms or simply the result of poor typing.

“The form details who collect it, where it was collected and who pre-treated it,” Allen bemuses.

Episodes of curtain slashing are ripe in the motorway service area.

Rampley inserts that the problem is occurring all over the UK.

The vehicle specifications have the ruining costs worked out.

Right repercussions across the industry

So even subs need subs. Somehow I managed to write this on one of our work blogs:

There are a wealth of legal stories on the site at the moment, several of which are bound to have right repercussions across the industry

Of course I'd meant 'repercussions right across the industry', but the mistake made me sound like I was writing in a regional dialect...

Typo of the week: allow wheels

Great typo in a vehicle specification submitted to the subs' desk:

Optional extra – allow wheels £2,900

Um, I would have thought that for a vehicle to be allowed wheels was more of a necessity than an optional extra.

It should of course read 'alloy wheels £2,900'...

Friday roundup: typos, typos, typos

This week's Friday roundup is all about typos.

• Copy editor Tim Stewart has been commenting on this blog recently, and his own blog, Typos in Print, might be one to watch – although it's too soon to say. Anyway, it's good to see another sub blogging.
  
  
• One of our regulars, Garik, emailed in to point out this post on Language Log. Not quite the Log's usual bag, but there are some interesting comments about if and when it is acceptable to "make fun of people who make spelling mistakes".
  
  
• Oh, and if you want to play 'spot the typo', check out the Priden Engineering website – but you'll have to be quick.