Category Archives: Typo of the Day

Hopefully the 3-Legged Kind

The typo of the day is stool (where I intended stood). It changed the meaning of the sentence a little.

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Hungry Heart

Typo of the day is hamelt, for an intended Hamlet. Clearly I should not have skipped lunch.

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A Ganelon By Any Other Name…

Typo of the day (which I discovered in an old slideshow from earlier this year): Gabolen. I’d intended to write Ganelon (the sinister traitor-knight in Charlemagne’s court). But Gabolen sounds like a pretty convincing name; maybe he/she/it will appear in … Continue reading

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Accidental Theology (or Zoology)

Typo of the day: amle (for an intended male). Amle looks like a real word, but I’m not sure what it’d mean. In OI ama is “to vex, annoy” so maybe Amlé would be like Purgatory for Norse Gimlé (“High … Continue reading

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Them Dry Bones

I misread an Old Norse word bœnhús (“begging from house to house”) as beinhús (“bonehouse”), and now I can’t get that wrong word out of my head. Maybe, in an upcoming story, Morlock will be trapped in a bonehouse. It … Continue reading

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Turn Up This Cruched Way

Typo of the day is cruch (where I intended to type crush). I figure cruching is like crushing, only with more crunch. And maybe you need a crutch afterwards.

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Southbound

Typo of the day is soughtward (for an intended southward). Seems like it ought to mean something—“in the direction of seeking”, maybe. “He never found what he was seeking soughtward; he only found it when he stopped looking.” Or maybe … Continue reading

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Goa, Going, Gone

I was scrolling through an electronic edition of a venerable Latin dictionary, which is a totally normal thing to do, and I was brought up short by the entry for superstitio: “excessive fear of the goas; unreasonable religious belief.” I … Continue reading

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Go Do That Voodoo That You Do…

Typo of the day: He said saidly (for an intended He said sadly). Saidly.

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