A listener named Andrea once had the job title of scriptwriter, which spell check didn't

like.

She said in her annual appraisal one year, her boss's assistant accidentally selected

the first option that the spell checker suggested.

Apparently, Andrea was a fabulous street walker.

Type-os, my friends, are not errors of judgment.

When they're not the result of autocorrect, they're often the result of our fingers taking

off on their own little adventures across the keyboard.

But before we figure out how to catch them, let's laugh at them, because they can definitely

be funny when you aren't the one being embarrassed.

For example, a few 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.

For recently, my friend Andy Hollandbeck, managing editor of the Saturday evening post,

may be laughed by posting a line from an article about pet rabbits, but one missing letter changed

the meaning entirely, reading, I've fallen in love with my friend's rabbi, and I want

one of my own.

Grandma Girl here.

I'm Mignon Fogerty, your friendly guide to the English language.

Take a round, because after we talk about proofreading, we're going to talk about some

cool words called light verbs.

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