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| Newspaper misspells its own name on front page |
| 2008-07-23 |
| This Monday readers of New Hampshire’s Valley News were surprised to see the paper's name spelled "Valley Newss" on the front page masthead. The following day the newspaper, which covers the Upper Valley area straddling New Hampshire and Vermont, published an “Editor’s Note” acknowledging the error. "Oupes. We messsed upp."“Readers may have noticed that the Valley News misspelled its own name on yesterday’s front page,” it read. “Given that we routinely call on other institutions to hold themselves accountable for the mistakes, let us say for the record: We sure feel silly.” "Knot to mentyon stupppid." The misspelling, which is still visible in the archive section of the newspaper’s website , has already been touted as favourite for typo of the year by the Regret the Error blog, which monitors media mistakes. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #2 Or, as a Globe headline once put it, "City Works to Stamp Out Literacy"... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-07-23 14:49 |
| #1 Wicked newssspapersss, my precioussss! |
| Posted by: xbalanke 2008-07-23 14:45 |