Spend 10 minutes on Facebook or 5 minutes on Tumblr and you'll probably find spelling mistakes in your posts. They are an inevitable fact and their main reason is human laziness. However, some spelling mistakes can be very curious.
10. Error in the name of Jesus on a coin issued by the Vatican
People directly connected with the Vatican come across the name Jesus much more often than ordinary people. It is not surprising that priests will be able to spell his name correctly if they are awakened in the middle of the night. The story becomes all the more surprising when the Vatican issued official medals in honor of the election of Pope Francis, the name Jesus was written on it with a mistake.
Medals on which instead of "Jesus" was written "Lisus", Were almost immediately withdrawn from sale for the purpose of destruction, however, some collectors still managed to acquire and keep several pieces. Ironically, thanks to the destruction of the medals, the price of those that were preserved soared to astronomical heights. To this day, the reason why the mistake was made is still a mystery. The people working at the Vatican simply could not help but notice such a typo.
9. Jack the Ripper spelling mistakes
Jack the Ripper is known to criminals and ordinary people as the most brutal serial killer in history. Even today, centuries after his appearance on the streets of London, people continue to debate about his identity and the motives for the crimes, it is not for nothing that Jack appears in the ranking of 10 historical mysteries. One of the reasons that Jack is notorious in society was his possible habit of teasing the police with letters, because there is still no evidence that the letters were written by him.
Three letters attributed to the offender:
- letter "Dear Boss",
- postcard "Daring Jackie",
- letter "From Hell".
They were all written in the same style, contained information about crimes and a large number of spelling errors. After the second letter came to the police, the police released copies of the two letters to the public, in the hopes that someone might recognize Jack's handwriting. Unfortunately, soon after the letters were published in the press, the police department was literally inundated with letters of copycats.
Many of them looked like the real thing, contained the same spelling errors, and matched Jack's style. Since the case was not closed, the police had to spend precious time researching the sources of the hoax letters instead of looking for the real culprit.
8. A mistake in Newton's principle that went unnoticed for three centuries
Of course, this is not a spelling mistake per se, but given the letters Newton used in mathematical equations, he was close to committing one. Newton's Principles is the most famous work that made an invaluable contribution to science, serving as the basis for all modern knowledge about gravity and the laws of motion..
Considering the above, the fact that there was an error in this work seems completely incredible, as well as the fact that this error was not noticed for several centuries, until 1987. Newton accidentally put the wrong number in the equation and got 11 instead of 10.5. Even more incredible, this error was discovered by a student, and not by an expert or one of the many thousands of people who have studied the work before.
7. Typos in the Bible
The Bible is reprinted several times more often than the stories about Batman, and errors in some editions can be called the grossest. For example, the most notorious specimen is considered to be the so-called "Evil bible", In which the well-known commandment"Do not commit adultery"Was accidentally printed as"Commit adultery».
Almost immediately after the error was discovered, the publishers were fined $ 40,000 and revoked. Then the church attempted to burn all the copies of the Bible that it could find, but a few copies still survived. Unfortunately, this is not the only error found in various editions of the Bible. For example, there is the so-called "Lion bible", Which is famous for the quote:"your son will come out of your lions" instead of "loins» («lions "instead of the desired" loins"). There is also a edition of the Bible where Jesus is accidentally named Judas.
6. An error in the Quran that led to the crisis
As with the Bible, typos in the Qur'an are a serious problem. Despite the fact that it is not always possible to document them, as, for example, in the case of “Wicked bible”, They nevertheless lead to a lot of trouble. In this case, a certain Ahmad al-Kulaib oversaw the release of the state version of the Quran, which was distinguished by the absence of many important sections.
This mistake was effectively the political suicide of al-Kulaib, who was serving in Kuwait as minister for Islamic affairs, when the mistake was noticed. Less than a week after that, Sheikh Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah dissolved parliament.
5. Shakespeare couldn't write his name
The name of William Shakespeare is certainly associated with the English language, and he himself is deservedly considered one of the greatest and most influential writers in history. But he also did not know how to write his own name. As you know, in Shakespeare's time, spelling rules were more flexible than modern ones. However, this does not change the fact that the famous writer constantly used different spellings of his name.
There are a total of six surviving versions of Shakespeare's signature, and they are all written differently, however, two of them are difficult to read. For example, Shakespeare used the following spellings for his name:
- Shaksper,
- Shakspere,
- Shakspeare.
In fact, Shakespeare's handwriting was so terrible that there is still controversy over his real signature. Moreover, his contemporaries wrote even worse, using such spellings of his name as Shakysper or Shakp.
4. Jane Austen couldn't write either.
Shakespeare can still be forgiven for his terrible spelling. After all, he grew up at a time when there were no generally accepted rules for writing, including the rules for spelling names. However, one can hardly forgive the writer Jane Austen, one of the most popular female writers in history, as well known as Shakespeare. Her novel Pride and Prejudice is one of the 10 Greatest Novels of All Time.
As an example of writing, consider a story simply titled “Love and friendship". Jane Austen wrote as a child. Does this mean that as an adult, she continued to make stupid spelling mistakes that could have been easily avoided? Unfortunately yes. In fact, a whole group of famous writers became famous for their childhood mistakes in the most famous works, including Ernest Hemingway, who constantly reminded the editor that correcting the mistakes of a writer is his job.
Hemingway wrote the word moving (movement) how moveing... Agatha Christie misspelled the name of one of her characters by writing Colonel Carbery instead of Colonel Cadbury... President Andrew Jackson, known for his oratory skills, wrote the word development (development) how devilopment... When Jackson was pointed out the mistakes, his answer was: "Only a man of the poorest mind can use a single spelling."
3. Google - the result of a typo
Google has become such a popular search engine that the very word “google"Turned into a verb with the meaning"look for something". If you are surprised that the word is written with a small letter, it is only because the company Google against writing this verb with a capital letter. The company representatives even wanted to ban its inclusion in the dictionary.
As a result, the term “to google something "(search for something) will be correct only if it is written with a capital letter G.This is rather strange considering the fact that the word “google"Is the result of a spelling mistake"googol". When the creators of the search engine Google were looking for a suitable name for the company, one of the proposed options was the name “googolplex", Denoting the number 10 to the power of googol. However, Larry Page, one of the founders Google, did not like the name Googolplex, and instead he suggested using just the word “googol».
When he asked a colleague to check if the domain was available “googol.com", A colleague accidentally entered the name"google.com". Larry liked the new spelling very much and was approved as the final version of the company name. Google is one of the most visited websites in the world today.
2. A typo that did not go unnoticed thanks to the Oscar
If you read the comments to any article on the Internet, you can, with a probability of about 40%, find at least one comment indicating certain factual inaccuracies, as well as spelling and grammatical errors. It will be right whoever thinks that this is the latest trend, which does not abandon attempts to correct the mistakes of people, including those who have passed away a long time ago.
What is the recent tough critical article on the topic of spelling errors by the author of an article published in the newspaper “New York Times" 161 years ago. According to a critical article, the error was found thanks to the keen eyesight of a reader who became interested in the newspaper's archives after the award ceremony.Oscar", Who saw that the name of Solomon Northup, the author of the book"12 years of slavery", Which became the basis for the Oscar-winning film, was written incorrectly. In an article published in the newspaper “New York Times"In 1853, the Northup surname was misspelled in two versions: Northop and Northrup.
1. Errors in the names of US cities
The names of some cities in the United States cannot be called anything other than a blatant disgrace, but, fortunately, not everyone can boast that they live in Sparta or Batman. If this were the case, it would be simply impossible to send letters - mailboxes would simply burst. Many cities in America had quite normal names as long as some joker did not make a mistake in them. For example, the city of Novi (Novi) in Michigan was originally called No VI (No VI), which was very fashionable, but some people confused Roman numerals with letters.
Similarly, the city of Frankfort (Frankfort) in Kentucky, originally called Frank's Ford - Frankov ford, in honor of the guy who was stabbed to death in the riverbed. Unfortunately, many cities were renamed only because the settlers did not like the names (or it was difficult for them to write them), given to the cities by the indigenous people - Indians. Hackensack (Hackensack) was previously called Akinchesaki (Ackinchesacky)... Before the arrival of the white people, the city Muncie (Muncie) may have been called Munsee, but no one knew how to spell this name correctly, so one could only guess.
