Proofreading is critical, as the authorities in Chile have discovered.

They minted a coin and spelled the country "Chiie". Whoops?



http://www.thepulse.cl/2010/02/12/3266/

CARTOON: Manual, Shmanual

A Picture-Perfect Example

A report talks about the high-levels of diabetes in the island of Fiji.





But when a poster to a forum wanted to publicize it, it didn't quite come out right.

Unable to Hold It In

Here's one of the best typos I have ever seen:

Errors That Leave a Big Mess

Are Technical Writers Infidels?

At SAP, we call technical writers "information developers", or infodevs for short. But the spellchecker has not heard this term, so it tries to correct the apparent spelling error:


Is the suggestion of infidel a coincidence? [I think NOT!]

Writing that Makes You Sick (ad nauseum)

Here's a a piece of documentation that might actually make you sick. The writer was probably just fed up with having to write one more procedure, but at least he could have spelled ad nauseam correctly.