Showing posts with label embarrassment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label embarrassment. Show all posts

Monday, August 11, 2008

Even the English Are Not Immune

My eye was drawn to a Daily Telegraph article about "embarrassing questions" asked by tourists to the stately homes of England.

However embarrassing the tourists' questions might have been, the Telegraph itself should be embarrassed by a repeated typographical/spelling error in the article.

After first spelling "Isle of Wight" correctly not once, but twice, the article later misspells it as "Isle of White" -- not once, but twice.

See for yourself:
A young visitor to Queen Victoria's summer palace Osborne House, on the Isle of Wight, was told that she had nine children and asked: "Did they all have the same dad?"....

"Is this where Sharon and Ozzie actually live?" - a visitor to Osborne House, Isle of Wight....

"Did they all have the same dad?" – a visitor to Osborne House, Isle of White, who learned of Queen Victoria's nine children....

"How long does life membership last?" - a visitor to Osborne House, Isle of White