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[marmar]

The University of Texas at Austin's public affairs assistant dean has issued an apology after a commencement listing for the program's forthcoming graduates contained a typo citing the Lyndon B. Johnson School of 'Pubic' Affairs.

Even the best writers, reporters and editors fall prey to the occasional typo. And it's probably bad karma to revel in someone else's unintentional mistake. But media critic Jim Romanesko reports that the LBJ school issued an apology via Twitter, reading, "Our deepest apologies to our 2012 graduates for the egregious typo in our program. We are working to distribute corrected programs."

Susan Binford, assistant dean for communications at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, tells Romanesko that students will be issued new copies of the commencement program.

"Obviously, we are mortified. It's beyond embarrassing," Binford said. "As soon as we realized the mistake [on Saturday], everybody went into overdrive and we went to work to reprint it." ...............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/university-texas-apologizes-pubic-affairs-commencement-typo-183616371.html

[PoliticAverse]

1. But it passed the spell checker!! n/t

[Liberal Veteran]

2. Insert Clarence Thomas joke here.

Or don't, since he is already a fucking joke.

[Wait Wut]

3. Those evil words that can't be caught...

...by spellcheck. That's why old fashioned proofreading is still a must. I have to occasionally beat my clients over the head with their proofs to get it through to them, but they give in when I tell them if there's a typo and they miss it...they pay for it. Still sucks when it happens, though.

[hlthe2b]

4. I never thought I was dyslexic, but there is something about the grocery chain, PUBLIX

that has me reading it, as the same.

Like an ear worm, everyone I've told that too now sees it the same.

[CTyankee]

5. well, they sure got a lot of pubicity out of it...