Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Radio Free Nacho

Our blog description's "The Daily Typpo" is not a misstatement, it is the truth.

Even after spell-checking, typing errors persisted in some posts, and there must be others, in the "known unknown" category of the great strategists we surely belong to.

The recent posts about the German general election were particularly trying to our tired fingers.

Democrat came out as demoncrat a few times, fixed seconds before we clicked on Publish. 

The vast majority of spelling errors do not bother us, they get fixed and no second thought is expended on an error.

The demoncrat was different because of its inadvertent potential.  TheEditor sat there, looked at the demoncrat, smiled, looked at one of the 95% tigers on the easy chair, then went back to look at the demoncrat. 

And took out the extra "n".

Which brings us to the admission of another misspelling, this one of the name of one our favorite radio stations, Radio Free Nachlaot out of Jerusalem. Having mistyped it a few times in TuneIn, we settled on a tex mex version of an internal name by calling it Radio Nacho for a time until we had the spelling right. Sorry about that guys and gals, sorry Loreley.

Back to politics, we still feel we want another minute or two of play time with the demoncrat. So, let's google it, and guess what, it is actually an entry in the Urban Dictionary.

This goes to show, do any research last or not at all!

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