Menu Typos

My BFF and I went out to breakfast this morning. We went to a local diner and had a great meal. While perusing the menu, she pointed to an item as if she was interested. I looked at it, it said, "Big Can Omelet".

This egg dish indicated it had ham, cheese, onions, peppers and other vegetables in it. I thought what gives it 'can'? None of the ingredients appeared to be out of cans.

BFF leaned over and said, "I think it's a typo". I had to lay my hands on a keyboard to see how it was possible to place a C where a M belonged. Wrong hand typing.

Typos are everywhere. In almost every book I read, I find a typo. Usually it's a word that has a different meaning, but it's spelled correctly. So, spell check doesn't catch it, because it's the wrong word for that sentence.

We started talking about the most egregious typos we'd ever seen in print. BFF found the original Lori Copeland book with 'sausage' instead of 'savage'. We laughed and laughed over that one. Since we all see 'their, they're and theres' done wrong and 'to, too and twos' inappropriately applied, this takes on new meaning.

What is the worst typo you ever found in print? It's probably best to skip the typos from foreign languages trying to put English on their commercial packaging or signage, there's a whole website devoted to that: www.engrish.com

What I want to know is what is the worst typo you've seen and in what format was it visible??

--Sandee Wagner