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The Typo Eradication Advancement League
Written by Pat's Papers | Tuesday, 31 August 2010 9:39 AM
America has a new pair of superheros. But instead of avenging crime, they are on a mission to rid the country of typos. After a whirlwind trip, the self-proclaimed Typo Eradication Advancement League, or TEAL for short, found 437 typos on signs in the 33 states they visited says the Kansas City Star. They managed to correct 236. And then they wrote a book. According to the two 28-year-olds, incorrect apostrophe use was the most common error, and correcting a particularly egregious example landed them in court.
(Photo courtesy of victoriapeckham via Flickr)
The book is called The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time
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