Grammar Girl here. I am a terrible proofreader. Knowing the rules is not the same as being

able to see them on the page. Today I'll tell you about funny typos, typos in contracts

and typos in the Bible, along with 10 tips for scrubbing your work of typos.

Typos aren't errors in the sense that you didn't know right from wrong. Typos are errors

that happen when your fingers get away from you and type something wrong that you don't

notice. Typos can seem funny after the fact. A couple of years ago, I told you about someone

who accidentally recommended a friend as a fat and accurate typist instead of a fast

and accurate typist. And another person who wrote to tell a friend he had written an

excellent report and instead called it an excrement report.

Some typos are more than embarrassing. They're costly. Contracts, for example, are not a good

place for typos. A Canadian utility company became famous for the million dollar comma

lawsuit when they had to pay another company more than two million dollars because of a misplaced

comma. Typos aren't a new problem either. There are a few old editions of the King James

Bible that have typos. A 1612 edition, known as the Printers Bible, reads,

Printers have persecuted me without a cause. Instead of princes have persecuted me without

a cause. And another one from 1635 is called the Sinners Bible because it reads,

thou shalt commit adultery. Instead of, thou shalt not commit adultery. Whoops. When you

want to avoid embarrassing yourself incurring costly lawsuits and leading believers astray,

here are 10 tips to help. One, have someone else read your work. The best way to find typos

is to have someone else read your writing. They don't know what you meant to say and their

fresh eyes will almost always catch the things you missed. But since that's not always possible,

here are some other solutions. Two, when you're writing on your computer, use the

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