When I type, I make a *lot* of spelling errors. And a lot of those errors are the same ones, over and over. Any word ending in “-ing” stands a better than even chance of ending up with “-ign.” Dunno why, just one of them things, I suppose. Spellcheckers get ’em *most* of the time, but as I’m sure any blog reader will recognize, a lot of them get through. In the end… shrug. I’m not exactly getting paid for this (note: see the end of the post for your extra Special Opportunity to change that), so it doesn’t overly bother me.

But other people… their minor transposition errors kinda make the news.

Irish moon landing stamp spells ‘moon’ wrong

The Irish word for moon is “gealach”. But the stamp spelled “gaelach”, which means being Gaelic, Irish or relating to the Scottish Highlands. … Instead of reading “The 50th Anniversary of the First Moon Landing”, it now reads “50th Anniversary of the First Landing on the Irish”.

Whoopsie.

FYI: The photo of Armstrong used on the stamp is, oddly, not from Apollo 11, but from Gemini 8.

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