Thursday, 09 July 2009
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Wite Hous Spellling Be
You may remember I'm an editor by trade, so I tend to notice errors. I don't usually notice them in my own writing though so don't look too closely!
This week, I'm guessing someone has been fired from the White House communications team. In just 24 hours, these press releases were sent to reporters:
"Recvoery.gov Version 2.0 $18 Million Contract Awarded" --That was the subject line of the email press release. I do think it is important to note that the word "recovery" was spelled right in the body of the email. So, they do know how to spell it!
In another press release:
"The Prime Minister wlecomed the President's plans for a nuclear security conference in 2010."
Another press release was signed, "Barak Obama" -- Oops, let's make sure his team knows how to spell his name, ok?
I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. Maybe they don't have a spell-checker installed yet.
One other thing to note... Did you notice in that press release above that our government spent 18 million dollars on a website redesign. Yes, $18 million on a website redesign contract. Hmm... What exactly does an $18 million website redesign look like? That must be some pretty advanced code work. I wish I was the webmaster and programmer for that one! Maybe I should have bid $10 million!
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Comments (3)
$18 million??? It better be in 3D and...nevermind. There is nothing that would cost justify a web redesign in that dollar range.
One time my boss and I were sending out a fundraising letter for his campaign, and the letter came back from the printing company with the spelling 'Barak' right there in the first line of the first paragraph. His girlfriend wrote it, not me! But to this day I am bothered that she misspelled it and he didn't catch it. His name is everywhere. Spellcheck or not, his name is everywhere.
Of course it was a costly mistake.
@Bobby - Oh no! That's terrible. One time I had some business cards printed for a kitchen design company and I spelled Kitchens as Kichens! It was wrong 3 times on the card. I felt like an idiot!
Another time I made a very costly mistake on a book that was printed 50,000 times. I'm surprised they didn't fire me! Oops.