Thursday, December 18, 2008

This speaks to me on many levels...

From the Editorial Corrections of the Year (courtesy of Andrew Sullivan)...

Correction of the Year

One of the year’s most coveted awards goes to none other than Dave Barry. Here’s how the famous humor writer chose to correct a misspelling he made in a column published by the Miami Herald:

In yesterday’s column about badminton, I misspelled the name of Guatemalan player Kevin Cordon. I apologize. In my defense, I want to note that in the same column I correctly spelled Prapawadee Jaroenrattanatarak, Poompat Sapkulchananart and Porntip Buranapraseatsuk. So by the time I got to Kevin Cordon, my fingers were exhausted.

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Alisa Gould-Simon is a freelance writer based in Brooklyn.