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Land of Typos, part ouch

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

From a recently edited scientific manuscript:

Expansion of the tested material occurred when the testes were held in an NaOH solution.

Those poor, poor testes.

Needless to say, the author intended to use the word tests. His use of testes instead represents one of the classic categories of typos that slip through spellchecker: the Accidentally Naughty Sentence.

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Land of Typos, part uno

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

“Most Danish motorways in the 1970′ies were constructed with cement-bound base layers.”

Oh dearie.

References to decades should generally be handled much more simply: the 1970s. Don’t you agree’ie?

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