Category Archives: misspellings

Grammar Giggles – The House Has Its Own Trainer!

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This was in my Facebook feed recently. Apparently this company wanted to get the attention of a house in Mesa for its program. Otherwise, it would have addressed it to Mesa RESIDENTS. And, once again, it also uses an apostrophe to make a word plural. It seems that a company paying to promote an ad would make sure it was correct.

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Grammar Giggle – Headings

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We received this pleading in our office recently. This is a perfect example of settings in Microsoft Word’s spell check making a huge difference. Check your settings to see if “Ignore Words in UPPERCASE” is checked and uncheck it right now! Headings, titles of pleadings, and other documents include lots of uppercase words and if you’re ignoring them, there could be errors you will miss. At least this person got it right once.

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Grammar Giggle – Licensed Under The Arizona Revised Statues

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I swear I’ve looked at this license on my nail tech’s desk a hundred times, but just last weekend I finally saw IT. The mistake that I make on occasion, but in proofreading, I find it and make the correction. I do see it quite a bit because it is not something spell check would catch. Apparently, the State of Arizona spell checker didn’t catch it either. And just as an aside, I do not consider this a “fraudulent” purpose–it is an educational purpose. But I do wonder what the Arizona Revised Statues look like. What part of the statue was revised? What are they modeled after? Where are they located? What do you think an Arizona Revised Statue would look like?

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Grammar Giggle – I Guess The Judge Dismissing The Case Is the Demise Of The Case, Right?

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A friend sent these to me. The first is what came in her email and the second is the online–and CORRECTED–version. I guess I’m happy it was corrected, but it should not have happened in the first place.

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Grammar Giggle – Who Knows Who’s Goal Was Met

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The flyer for a recent fundraising event for one of my grandsons caught my eye, so I checked out the website. All I can say is that they were consistent–it was wrong, but it was wrong in both places. The correct word is “whose.” The word “who’s” is a contraction for “who is” which would not be correct in the sentence.

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Proofreading Matters–At Least It Did To The Victims Of A Potential Cyber Heist!

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one-billion-dollar1Do you really think typographical errors don’t matter much? I read an article recently from The Washington Post about a typo that thwarted a $1 billion cyber heist on a Bangladesh bank. It seems that the hackers broke into the Bangladesh central bank’s system in February and stole the credentials necessary to authorize payment transfers. They used the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (“FRBNY”) to make nearly three dozen hefty money transfers from the Bangladesh bank’s account with the FRBNY to other overseas financial institutions.

The hackers were able to make four transfers to accounts in the Philippines totaling about $80 million. The fifth request for a transfer of $20 million to an apparently fictitious Sri Lankan nonprofit group was flagged by the routing bank as suspicious because the transfer request said “fandation” rather than “foundation.” When the routing bank asked for confirmation, the Bangladesh bank was able to stop the transaction. The other requests waiting to be processed—totaling $850 million to $870 million—were also stopped.

While it appears there is some finger-pointing going on about who is at fault and threats of international lawsuits, it was a knowledgeable person with obviously good proofreading skills who was paying attention who actually halted a potential $1 billion crime. Proofreading matters!

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