Typos prove costly for Pennsylvania attorney

A Pennsylvania attorney is finding out that typos can be expensive. A judge says lawyer Brian Puricelli, of Newtown, is entitled to $26,000 in fees for his work on a successful civil rights lawsuit, not the more than $180,000 he wanted.

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VeriSign wins patent for Internet typo redirection

The company that runs many of the Internet's core directory systems has won a patent for its controversial service that helps Internet users find sites even when they mistype addresses.

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Typing mistakes in a job application can kill a would-be employee's chance of landing a job as employers bet that a sloppy resume means the applicant will do a sloppy job.

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Add Homonyms...

They sound the same but they are spelled differently and mean different things.

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"Masking ruins the user experience.

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Necessity of Government in Economics: Why A Certain Degree of Intervention is Needed

Throughout history, government of the people has been proven a necessity. The government has many duties, from regulation a nation's foreign policies, to maintaining order.

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In honor of Vizzini, the Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar (SPOGG) has given his name to frequently misused words. These often sound alike -- they're, there and their, for example.

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PHOENIX (AP) - August 25, 2008 -- A war against typos has gotten two men into trouble with the Feds.

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Typographical Errors: Where Are The Copy Editors?

I must have been an editor in a former life. Whenever I encounter even the slightest typographical error, I cringe, especially when that error is in a major national publication or a best-selling book. You'd think think Time, Inc.

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Talk about misleading titles....A flash flood watch in effect Sunday...

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Typo's & Faux Pas

The article "Norman , Evert relationship under microscope" Sunday 13th January: Open par; GERG Norman's relationship with beau Chris Evert... etc 1/ GERG should have read GREG.

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David Ulevitch is trying to turn two numbers into a multimillion-dollar business.

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Write Better Here

Since the Beta days of newsvine, many users have wanted and brainstormed ideas for editors. The main goal of newsvine may be "to get smarter here" but many of us would also like to become better writers at the same time. Some of us are not experts on Strunk and White.

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This is an interesting idea - Radar analyzed New York Times reproters to see who had the highest percentage of corrections.

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Sometimes a little effort goes a long way. Just ask one lawyer, Mr. Puricelli (who represented a man successfully in a civil rights case), who got upbraided for repeatedly failing to fix typos in his court filings. The judge described Mr.

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Proof That John McCain Needs New Interns

Ok, I wasn't going to pile on John McCain after this morning's prank heard 'round the world, but after a reader sent in a tip a few minutes ago, I just can't pass this up.

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I thought this was classy: Publicly thanking a reader who regularly sends edited, corrected versions of stories.

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Typos, Speed & Other Pubic (Heh) Issues

Mistakes happen. As a journalist for more than 15 years, I made my share of typos. Typos and other mistakes in journalism are important for several reasons:

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Researchers at Microsoft appear to have thoroughly exposed a large portion of the giant URL-typo-having, front-door-redirecting, AdSense-exploiting, scam network.

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