Correction to a story about a spellcheck company that made an error
…whew. This story from Reuters contained a typo in the second paragraph, though we don’t know what it was. The correction only said, " Corrects typo in 2nd paragraph." Enjoy:
TORONTO (Reuters) – A company that sells software to
correct irritating Internet spelling mistakes has reissued its
latest news release to correct a minor snafu.
TextTrust, which says it focuses on "eliminating the
negative text impressions on Web sites," re-released a Tuesday
news release to correct a mistake that listed the most common
spelling errors on "the 16 million we (sic) pages it has spell
checked over the past year."
It said commonly misspelled words included independent,
accommodation and definitely, which were spelled independant,
accomodation and definately.
"It’s very embarrassing," said Pat Brink, PR consultant for
the Toronto-based company. "I made the mistake, not TextTrust
– they do a much better job, It’s certainly egg on the face of
this public relations person."
The release quoted TextTrust as saying that it used both
human editors and special spell-checking software to scour Web
sites for spelling mistakes. "TextTrust wants to make sure that
organizations never again receive the ‘I found a spelling error
on your web site’ e-mail," it said.
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