Merriam-Webster Schools The White House Over Terror List Typos

[Crabtownboy]

There are more typos in the White House's "unreported terror attacks" list than there are unreported terror attacks

3:36 AM - 7 Feb 2017


The editors at Merriam-Webster have issued a reminder that the dictionary has tools to help people improve their spelling habits, after the White House issued a statement littered with typos.

Folks on Twitter noticed that the list the White House released of terrorist attacks that President Donald Trump claims were “underreported” by Western media outlets was filled with typographical errors. Most noticeably, the word “attacker” was repeatedly misspelled as “attaker.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...s-the-white-house_us_5899808fe4b09bd304bd52a1

 

[StefanM]

[HASHTAG]#MakeAmericaSpellAgain[/HASHTAG]

 

[InTheLight]

Only surrounds himself with the very best people.

Hey, someone in the Obama administration once misspelled a word too, ya know.

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[StefanM]

Only surrounds himself with the very best people.

Hey, someone in the Obama administration once misspelled a word too, ya know.

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It was a Saul Alinsky plot to make that typo, too.

 

[Crabtownboy]

Only surrounds himself with the very best people.

Hey, someone in the Obama administration once misspelled a word too, ya know.

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Just a bit different, my friend, from making multiple spelling mistakes in one writing.

My English teacher in high-school and the one in college would have given me an "F" for one mistake. That one mistake would not have been limited to spelling. A misplaced comma, a split infinitive, etc. would have earned an F also.

A spell check would not have caught the Obama mistake you cited. However a spell check would have caught mistakes, such as "attaker". They need to set their word-processing on automatic spell check.

 

[InTheLight]

I would say putting the Paris attacks, the Orlando nightclub attack, the Nice truck attack, and the Belgium airport attack on the list of underreported news stories is a greater offense than misspelling attack.

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[Crabtownboy]

I would say putting the Paris attacks, the Orlando nightclub attack, the Nice truck attack, and the Belgium airport attack on the list of underreported news stories is a greater offense than misspelling attack.

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I agree with you ... but that is not the topic of the thread.

They were covered here, but I expect they were covered in greater depth in Europe. The European press covers the US much more comprehensively than our press covers Europe.