5 Worst Typos of History
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- In which John, having discovered an (inevitable) mistake in The Fault in Our Stars, discusses his list of the five worst typographical errors and grammatical mistakes in the history of the English language, from the Bible to Shakespeare.
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The guy who corrected Hitler's speeches was a Grammar Nazi
Oh we'll played.
Oh gosh darn it. Stupid autocorrect. I meant well played. Not we'll played
+Derpy Hooves no, he was a dead guy. I read somwhere that the guy who proof read Mein Kampf before publishing got executed for knowing Hitler was as illiterate as I am =) typoes are my thing damn it
+Angry Face that's a scary image. but there is a "hipster hitler" comic out there somwhere...if you can find it. it's pun was "I love juice"
unsurprisingly it didn't last...wonder why... :/
+Queen Bee ummmm you forgot the period in your sentence
"Cease the day!" is the theme printed in all the yearbooks from my high school during my senior year.
My name's Imogen and now I feel as if my life is a lie.
Maybe it is...
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So is the cake
Me Too.
totesimoge aweeee
The best typo I've ever heard of is from a few years ago. A newspaper reporter was writing about AIDS, describing in her article "men who have sex with men." Unfortunately, what appeared under her byline was the phrase without the final "n." She was pretty good sport about it.
My own personal best typo was when I emailed a contractor that "Myself and my draftsman will be visiting the site on Dec 23rd," but I wrote "My elf and my draftsman..." I left out the 's' in myself, two days before Christmas. Awesome!
Even if you wrote "Myself and my draftsman" you would have still been incorrect. Myself if a reflexive pronoun and should only be used while referring to something you are doing to yourself. For example, "I wrote myself a poem", instead of "I wrote me a poem". You should have said my "draftsman and I".
Ryan O'Kane Thanks!
Ryan O'Kane Why does this comment makes me so happy?! Seriously. I should not care so much for things like this. The whole internet is one big grammar mistake.
LivingInVancouverBC i once typed "all fart of the plan" to a friend
LivingInVancouverBC i once typed "all fart of the plan" to a friend
If anyone cares the typo is where he says that the book is not based on real people. It says "neither novels or their readers" instead of "neither novels nor their readers"
Thank you, I had been wondering that for a while. DFTBA
Thanks!
In highschool, I once accidentally wrote that in a certain miserable year in Quebec, the infant mortality rate was 40$... but managed to catch it before submitting my paper.
This is killing me xDDD
ah the days before john green books took over the world
Another thing in the bible of 1631: "And ye said, behold, for god hath shewed us his glory and his great asse" -Deuteronomy 5:24.
Original text:"... his glory and his greatnesse"
I found a mistake in _An Abundance of Katherines_!
In the sentence Colin uses to remember pi to 99 digits (actually 100 digits, or 99 decimal places) where it says "…joy fades but hurt feelings bring just grief;…" this represents …06286207…, but the actual digits are …06286208…, so "grief" should have been a word starting with H.
I saw an ad before this video that said, "A typo in your resume could mean the difference between getting a job and not."
That was kinda funny...
You forgot about the typo inside the Lincoln memorial which is literally carved in stone for eternity!
until it is weathered away.
Ryan M or destroyed
(that would be sad)
MATTHARTNETT more dramatic! And scary!
Until mechanical erosion, chemical and mechanical weathering wear it away.
I've lived in a typo for several years. The Norwegian town Grimstad means Ugly Place in English, though it was meant to be Grømstad, Grøm's Place.
I'm so sorry. We shall start an international petition to rename your town.
Well no, in English it means Grimstad. Which is Norwegian, not English. Therefore its true meaning stems from Norwegian. Grím or Grim is a very normal name in Old Norse. Sure it's not just Grim's Stad? Since, you know... Many cities are named after the founders.
CottonPanzer I am afraid your anecdote fails the test of reality. While Grim is a normal place name elsewhere, it is isn't in Grimstad. However, there is a place just on the other side of the hill of the town center that's called Grøm. Therefore Grømstad should've been the town's name.
Koppa Dasao Well it's not an anecdote it's just a name ;) But sure, if you have the actual name for the founder/cause ;)
CottonPanzer I do. It's named after the farm Grøm.
as a relatively recent nerdfighter its crazy to me that you can witness John talk about The Fault in our Stars while creating it lol
In Melvyn Bragg's 12 Books that Changed the World, page 1 includes a typo that states that the dinosaurs died out 65 BILLION years ago (instead of 65 million). Bragg is an arty type who would undoubtedly be surprised if you told him that the time his book claims the dinosaurs died out is almost exactly five times longer than time itself has actually existed.
I like this guy.... I love what he did with his book.... opened to the middle stick up to nose and take a huge sniff of freshly printed book.... that is such a awesome thing to do.....
I smell all the books I read and honestly the smell is nice
Why? Loads of people do that. It's not like it's abnormal.
Chris Dueck I agree
Voice of Reason I like it too.
Chris Dueck I agree too.
My favourite typo was in a student life guide that they handed out at school to advise kids on drugs, sex, health and those sort of things. The chapter on bullying had a type that read "You might think you are the only person in the world that feels this way- you are" they meant to write "you are NOT" so added a sticker on the front of the book to let everyone know about the mistake. haHA
I've been typing in "it's" wrong for most of my life. Thank you John for making me smarter everyday
When I clicked on the video I read the title as "5 Worst Types of History". For about a minute I was confused as to what history had to do with typos.
When John said *"IT'S"* I couldn't stop laughing. I think it's his voice...
I love misnomers or typos that reverse the intended meaning
lmao i have a habit of smelling new books too haha
That's how I pick a book in the book store. I pick the one that smells the awesomest. This practice is made far more difficult with the advent of online hard copy purchases and ebooks. I hope to find a better method by which to select future titles. Any suggestions?
Lee Chrastil
The blurb? ;)
John made a mistake at the beginning of the video. He said "You'll never guess what I got in the mail unless you guess The Fault in our Stars." The mistake is even if someone said something else they still would have guessed and so if he said "You'll never guess correctly" then that sentence would make sense.
If you are sitting reading this wondering why the hell someone would take 5 minutes to say this then you are right as I am a strange human.
Your point's pretty redundant.
When he said "You'll never guess what I got in the mail", it's a given that he meant "You'll never CORRECTLY guess what I got in the mail." In normal English, there's no reason to clarify with that 'correctly'.
Like, when somebody says to you "Guess what I got for my birthday". The "no"s that follow your guesses of "roast beef" and "42" aren't wrong because they're not guesses - they're wrong because they're not what that person got for their birthday.
Elle Zappy umm is there something wrong with not using contractions because as far as I know YOU ARE is completely acceptable
to guess: (Merriam-Webster)
"to arrive at a correct conclusion about by conjecture, chance, or intuition"
"to form an opinion of from little or no evidence"
The first "guess" is the first definition, the second is the second.
IAmBrokenPenguin has made a mistake in their comment. They said they were a strange human when they are indeed a penguin.
OH MY GOD SOMEONE WHO UNDERSTANDS MY HATRED FOR THE USE OF "IT'S" IMPROPERLY!
oh my gods he smells books too! 😂
YESSSSSS
Everyone smells books!
JOHN!!! I wrote my chem multiple choice exam today, IGCSE, and they used "it's" WRONG. In a Cambridge exam. They abused it by saying - "and it's oxide can be used as a catalyst." I have lost my ability to trust.
My chemistry teacher (Doctor from UC Davis) makes that mistake all the time on her slides.
***** Good. I would be very worried if your English teacher made frequent grammatical errors.
get some pasta and some ground black people
LAUGHED SO HARD
same here(: I REALLY wasn't expecting it
the book thief made me ugly cry for twenty minutes.
Dutch military plane carrying bodies from Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crash lands in Eindhoven. there's supposed to be a comma after the words plane and crash. The plane did not crash, it landed uneventfully in Eindhoven
So, my name is a typo. What even is life?
+Imi Burrell I know that feel
+Imi Burrell Some great things can come out of typos. :)
Ground... black.. people.
**dies laughing**
Yaaaayyyy, my name's a typo....
wow that's really weirddd
Eric Wang Nice to know, i guess
in a weird sort of way
Imogen Watts I make so many typos it's ridiculous. I remember my very first typo, from thirty-two years ago: *keyborad*
Imogen Watts I like drawn-out vowels. Yaaaayyyyyy! Iiiii liiiiike draaaaaawn oooouuut voooooweeeels. Theeeeyyyy soooooouuuund muuuuusiiiicaaaal.
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Dude! I thought that was a different John Green who wrote the book...
I went to this restaurant and I looked at the salad menu and it said "blew cheese: 50 cents extra" and I pretty much spit my drink across the table because my mom said "so how exactly do you think they prepare that?"
I had to stop and pause this video for 5 straight minutes because I could not stop laughing at "ground black people" in a cookbook. I'm still crying from laughing, thank god I know how to type blind.
Also not from a book, but from a letter sent to me when I was a social worker, and mailed to me at ''The Department of Public Welfare''....but they had left the ''l'' out of the word ''Public.''
I read TFIOS in 4 1/2 hours. It may be my favorite book of all time, even better than Looking for Alaska (which was awesome) and An Abundance of Katherines (which was awesome and hilarious). Great job, John. Hope the movie does the book justice.
I read the Fault In Our Stars in two days! I simply could not put it down it was amazing!! :')
Me too, although I feel 26 hours is a more accurate description...
Aha :') Well I started reading it at 5 pm and carried on until 3 am. And then my eyes failed to serve me and I had to carry on the next day XD
8 hours for me the thing was addictive his books are like crack i just started and finished looking for alaska today
Is it good??? I want to read it as soon as I finish an abundance of Katherines :)
Yes it is. It really is a special story and it is told in quite an interesting way.
Oh my God, I had no idea that you were the author of The Fault in Our Stars when I started watching your videos twenty minutes ago! I'm a huge fan, though I'm sure you get that a lot. I just wanted to say that you very much for sharing the stories in your head with the world. The Fault in Our Stars is phenomenal and I loved it so much. Thank you once again for setting your stories free.
This made me chuckle, you are a breath of fresh air John Green. Read FOIS today during my 6 hour wait for Jury Duty - needless to say I was the strange girl in the corner of the hall crying on my kindle (quite a beautiful sadness I might say). Paper Towns is batting next, thanks for all the enjoyable content you provide to us simple humans!
so about that "go and sin on more" thing, at the time when you printed something you had to set the type out backwards so that would be an incredibly easy mistake to make
swordfish1929 Actually, no. You had to set the type up-side down but not, in fact, backwards. On the other hand, little pieces of metal are fiddly.
John green, my name is Imogen. Thank you, I can now say that Shakespeare created my name. Hahaha 😂💕. I just wanted to say that the fault in our stars is so utterly truthful, which it both beautiful and hurtful and all together flawless.
It’s 2019, I’m 22 years old, and whenever I’m not sure whether I should use it’s or it’s I still hear John’s voice in my head saying “if you are contracting it is- YES. If you are not contracting it is- NO.”
Autocorrect ruined my comment and I am sorry
My mom found this one typo in our church bulletin. The headline was supposed to be "Food and Drink" (one of the meal services we do), but the man who wrote this announcement wrote "Good and Drunk" instead.
hot4crocs YIKES!!!
Wait, you wrote fault in our stars? HOLY SHIT
That was my exact reaction an year ago. I thought he was a fan of the book since there's a TFIOS chart in the back of the video, and of course he showed the book in the beginning (like a fangirl, I believed). Then I realised TFIOS was released in 2012 and I saw more of his videos and there's that :P
How about Ski-Doo? (supposed to be Ski-Dog but they made a typo and just rolled with it)
James Earl Jones was honored in his home town of Lauderhill, FL on Martin Luther King Day in 2002. The plaque read "Thank you James Earl Ray for keeping the dream alive." James Earl Ray was the man who infamously assassinated the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr.
Whether it was intentional or a typo is a matter of debate. One could make compelling arguments both ways.
This is my fave Vlogbrothers video ever
IT SMELLS SO GOOD! SIN ON MORE!
***** I have to say that "it's" in the Constitution is probably not a typo. The fact is, the spelling *it's* for the third person neuter genitive pronoun was actually considered acceptable until the early 19th century, so at the time the Constitution was written, it was actually correct. When you reference a 300 year old document, you have to remember that language changes.
www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=its&allowed_in_frame=0
there is a typo in the description; "an (inevitable) mistake" should be "a (inevitable) mistake" because if you take out the parenthesis, the sentence has to make sense, so yeah... unless I'm wrong which is entirely possible.
My favorite was in Rockford Illinois. A hospital was getting some renovation or construction or something. So, a huge sign was placed at the front drive to redirect traffic. It was supposed to be "ENTRANCE IN REAR". But whoever printed it added a D to the end of ENTRANCE. Which changed the meaning significantly. I think there was a colonoscopy office there somewhere.
I love that book, it made me cry so much T~T
the book made me cry also
I think almost every human that's read the book cried, because I did, too.
I refuse it read The Fault In Our Stars.
Keira Gill Grammar might need a touch up, but I'm pretty sure you meant that "it" to be a "to". Also, You forgot to add quotations around "The Fault In Our Stars", but at least you capitalized each letter.
Phew. Sorry, I'm a grammar nazi. But more importantly, why will you not read "La faute à nos étoiles"? (My french may be a bit faulty... you could say it would be "The Fault In My French XD)
How?
I'm waiting for the my second proof of my first novel to arrive in the mail, simply to read it all over again and try to thwart Gaiman's Law.
Nest of Luck, but NEIL GAIMAN reigns supreme!
mig5l
I think you mean BEST of luck.. Typo in the comments!
I received the first published copies yesterday and had a mini panic attack, wondering if I had spelled "traveller" wrong on the back cover.
XD
I read your wonderful book in four hours and yelled each time some one came into my room. Since then I've read it countless times. It's the sweetest book ever :)
This was SO interesting! And your vids are so much fun to watch.
wait you are the jhon green that wrote that??? i just knew you from crash course! wow i feel stupid
I had a copy of that pasta bible and holy hell you brought back some memories there hahaha
First video I've watched from you guys. I'm kind of shocked. You're THE John Green. Looking for Alaska is one of my favourite books. Wow. I'm subscribing right now!! Saludos from Argentina :D
Oh my god! I had no idea you were the guy who wrote The Fault in our Stars. Now you rock even more.
FDR in bed with Co-ed....considering how far the letter E is from the letter L on a typical keyboard, I think the publishers are trolling
More suspiciously, how the hell did the hyphen get there‽
TristanBomb EXCELLENT POINT SIR
I quite prefer the other explanation makes more sense.
Cooper Saude Trolling, or the longer one?
According to my knowledge, the QWERTY Keyboard was introduced in the late 1870's, so QWERTY was being used. But, it was most likely they had hand-written the writing, and so it was in a spidery or weird looking cursive, therefore making it look like it does.
I loved tfios, but tbh the book thief is my all time favorite book.
So, I was at the NCTE conference in Chicago in November of 2011, and went to see (for my first session at my first NCTE conference) a session on “Defending Intellectual Freedom.” The headliner was Jimmy Santiago Baca, but Jimmy couldn’t make it, and instead I was introduced to author John Green-who was a ridiculously awesome, engaging, and entertaining speaker. Captivated by his presentation, I decided if his books were half as awesome as he was, I definitely needed to check them out.
Thus began a love affair which I have carried over into my classroom. I have yet to recommend Looking for Alaska to a student who has not loved it, and I was even fortunate enough to have a department head who was wise enough to allow me to order a class set of The Fault in Our Stars in 2012, and I have been teaching the novel ever since.
So, thank you, John Green, for making YA accessible to young people while also giving them something to think about. You are *expletive* awesome!
Thank you for clearing up "its" and "it's" for me. Nobody has EVER actually told me that despite the fact I've been asking for most of my life. So thank you very, very much.
Oh cool, so you also wrote a book called "The fault in our stars", just like that one huge blockbustehh... wait WHAT?!!
little did he know...
+Macey Johnson My thoughts exactly
I have read your book 7 times and only found one typo and that was the one you found. Well done! (PS tfios is my favorite book of all time)
I love hearing John talk about this law, as it is one reason I haven't looked at my first novel ... because I know it will make me keep revising; and sometimes turning my brain into a state of wanting to eat itself is not fun.
Not to mention in the Declaration of Independence, they spell British like Brittish.
that's probably just old English :)
GundelSince2011 Actually, the word British is repeated a few more times and it's spelled British instead of Brittish. Hope I don't sound rude. If I do I apologize.
I had to read old court transcripts from the Salem witch trials as well as some original works by Newton. They were[are] all filled with inconsistencies. Not sure why. Perhaps spelling wasn't very important back then.
C. Brisbois Standid spelings are a verie noow thing; it's nott so mutch a matta ov inconsistensees as the wurds beink spelld with the aksent ov the indivijewall in kweshjun, offen vehreeing with the intoneashun at the time ov riting. As more peeple could reed, words became evin more standard, as the necessity of a bureaucracy that could co-operate beyond dialects emerged.
This used to be a much bigger issue at the time when dialects used to resemble separate languages; Caxton (a 1400s fellow) mentioned a merchant requesting some eggs:
"And the goode wyf answerde, that she coude speke no frenshe. And the marchaunt was angry, for he also coude speke no frenshe, but wolde have hadde egges, and she understode hym not." (That's pronounced "egg-es", "fren-shuh", "mar-shawnt" et cetera)
She did, however, recognize another customer's request for "eyren" which were, of course, the "egges" in question.
Lucas Greenslade I gave up on trying to translate that after 30 seconds.
Am I the only one who paused the video to go grab my copy of The Fault in our Stars and look for the typo?
I noticed a few typos in the book, but they were mostly quotes that were left open with no closing quotes, though they were just continued speech into the next paragraph, although I found one that was left unclosed.
I have the second edition printing of the fault in our stars, and you corrected the typo in between prints
If I recall correctly, weren't the spellings of American English words only standardized when Noah Webster published his Dictionary? And the Constitution was written before that. So it wouldn't be a misprint so much as just having been written before the rule was made.
Or do I have my events mixed up?
That is correct, however the it's/its distinction predates both Webster's Dictionary and the U.S. Constitution. 'It's' is a contraction 'it is' and 'its' is possessive, both have been rules of English for a very, very long time
One of the best typos in history to me is.
"I need Feminism because my own boyfriend laughed when I told him I was magoring in women's studies"
That is a real typo folks. Funny as hell.
This video is the reason I read TFIOS and now everyone in school is reading it and I love it and I've read it 3 times and I cry every time and this is a run-on sentence and for the first time in my life I don't care and basically the book changed my life, so THANK YOU SO MUCH JOHN GREEN!!!!!!!!)
I found the typo in tfios and you have no idea how proud I am :)
wait what
I never made the connection between the two people
John is the one who wrote the fault in our stars??
I found out that today and I have been watching vlogbrothers since January
So touché
MY NAME IS BASED ON A TYPO... WAHOO.
I absolutely love this video. You really made me laugh John Green. Thank You.
I should like to point out that "its" being possessive (vice "it's") is actually relatively new. The apostrophe-s as possessive has been around for a long time, but eventually people decided to remove the apostrophe for "its." As such, it may very well have been correct at the time the constitution was written.
Trivia?
Washington Post, 1915, talking about Woodrow Wilson and his fiancee: “The President gave himself up for the time being to entering [entertaining] his fiancee.”
Will all preorders be signed?
+Gergenhimer Way to keep the reference alive.
lol, dude, it has been 4 years. the book is already out, and they made a movie about it. so, unless you live under a rock or been high all this time, you probably should know this already
Oumaima Cherrat It's a reference to the fact that people asked him all the time back then, even though it was clearly stated in almost every video.
Gergenhimer sure, whatever helps you sleep at night lol
Just was typing something and almost used the wrong "its", and remembered my mistake, because this video was playing in the background. Thanks, Jon!
I just got the collectors edition of tfios! So happy! Its awesome
well thanks to the King James Bible, technically John Proctor committed no sin in the Crucible..... this just shows how much crucible homework i have been doing right now....
I'm surprised you didn't use the one from South Bend Indiana: 15 best things about Pubic Schools. As Ellen DeGeneres put it: "I can tell you one of them isn't spelling"
It's fun to see this back now that Hank made his video where he got the finalized first edition of An Absolutely Remarkable Thing (and also that other video when he smelled his own book just like John did here... oh you peculiar Green brothers). Must be quite a unique feeling, to finally get to hold a that physical manifestation of a couple of year's work.
Edit: typo
omfg this was my first vlogbrothers video ive ever seen
i always find the typos
sunny typos make me laugh. My very first typo, in typing class in the olden days before PC's (1986-87 school year): *keyborad*
0:52
Most excellent and satisfying. Now all I need to do is learn the word genitive. Always exciting when I come across I don't know. Thank you sir.
The first book I read that John wrote was The Fault In Our Stars. Just finished Paper Towns and I'm now reading Looking For Alaska (Christmas gift from my mom).
GROUND BLACK PEOPLE! That is the worst typo ever!!
Yeah I feel like that kinda deserves to be higher of the list.
Does he even breathe?
An apology has been issued after a university published a commencement listing for forthcoming graduates of the Lyndon B Johnson School Of Pubic Affairs.
The University of Texas programme went to print without a murmur and was distributed this weekend, presumably to much mirth.
This one is my favorite!
I should be asleep. JOHN, STOP MAKING ME WANT TO WATCH MORE OF YOUR VIDEOS.
King James' bible:
"Thou shalt not lie with mankinde as with womankinde; it is an abomination."
The hell is a kinde?
The way of saying 'kind' back then.
Well, ancient grammar and other languages don't really translate well. Translate Japanese to English and you'll see stuff like "All your base are belong to us" and more weird stuff like that
Mikey Howard That's essentially google translate quality tho.
No, it was done by people who've studied Japanese scripture, kanji, and language.
Mikey Howard Right, sure it was.
you were cheating at #2, plays aren't books.
Read tfios in three hours. Continued this ritual each day for five days. Words could not possibly describe the tears spilt on my copy of this wonderful book. Thanks John for killing me inside.
+vlogbrothers I just finished reading TFIOS half an hour ago and it's my favourite book so far!