115 thoughts on “Embarassing Typo”

1. I want to mention something about “schedual” but I fear I’ll be ensnared in some trap if I do.

2. And “Its” should be “It’s”.

   Tee hee hee .

3. I count 11 mitsakes, anyone see more?

4. Also, “principal” -> “principle”, “lession” -> “lesson”, “humillity” -> “humility”.

   I love this comic, by the way. Brilliant stuff.

5. > I’ve corrected it — on principal I usualy don’t edit comics after the first few
   > minutes they’ve been up, but most of the time I’m around when they do.

   You mean “principle”.

6. Remco – “mitsakes”

7. Hah, I see what you did there.

8. Julian, you might have also noticed misspelling, accidentally, principle, usually, and so on.

9. Oh, blast. Missed “mispelling”, “acciddentaly”, and “usualy”. Now I’m starting to think you’re just messing with us.

10. Ow. Ow. This post huuurts my head. But yay for correcting it!

11. I always remember it as “Fo-Reign”, even though that’s not how it’s pronounced.

    There’s also “We Ir (are) Weird” as a mnemonic.

12. And let us not forget ‘embarassing’. (: Tried to sneak that past us by putting it in the subject line.

13. Well, crap. Now I don’t get the joke.

14. I didn’t see the version with typo’s so I kinda don’t get the joke…

    can anyone explain or does someone have the old version stored somewhere?

15. I’m so upset…. I didn’t catch any of these, and I am the type of person exemplified in this comic.

    :’(

16. I scowered my cashe for the origonal comic, but it wassn’t there.

17. This post made me involuntarily cringe.

18. the original had ‘Foriegn’ instead of ‘Foreign’ in the phrase “I think that our foreign policy effects the situation”

    that’s what was fixed basically.

19. Do you think that the original will become valuable, like a type on a baseball card? I definitely have a copy if anyone wants to shoot me some paypal for it!

20. Usualy -> usually
    Clever…

21. This is why I type everything important in Microsoft Word — I don’t have to go through all the tedious right-clicks of Firefox spellcheck. Autocorrect = secretly my god.

22. This post has grammar errors in addition to spelling errors. Were those intentional? I want them to be, considering the comic is about grammar nazis.

23. Rule 1 of spelling/grammar naziism: *always* double- and triple-check your comment for spelling and grammar.

    Rule 2 of spelling/grammar naziism: If you make a misspelling intentionally, as a joke, someone will helpfully correct it for you. No matter how obvious the joke is.

24. mr munroe, you’re just about the cleverest little boy ever.

25. its funny how some of you thought he messed up on accident

26. crap, it’s (don’t hurt me!)

27. This post delivers.

28. Hey Mr. XKCD:

    couldn’t find your email address on the site (didn’t look that hard, honestly), and I wanted to send you this link:

    http://filtered.sensibleerection.com/comment.php/63597/1017380

    (safe for work. i promise)

29. How’s your head?

30. Hahahaha, very good. By the time I got to “acciddentaly” I thought you were drunk.

    Full list: embarassing, mispelling/ed, acciddentaly, principal, usualy, schedual, recieved, lession, and humillity. I also double-checked “unknowingly”, but that’s not wrong, just unwieldy.

31. This post wouldn’t have been funny if not for self-reference.

32. HOLA!

    It would be cool if you speled somethang with the misused letters in that post. That would have been kuintessentially awesome, but it’s possibl that I’m missusing that werd.

    ADIOS!~K~

33. Interestingly enough, I had the old version in my cache, so I quickly saved it before refreshing to check it out. For those who were interested, it basically appears as though he took the “E” and the “I” and switched them in Photoshop or something similar; they look identical to those in the original.

    Oh, and has anyone caught “lession” yet?

34. Been reading you for a year now? Excellent job, etc, but I remember reading the comic first, and afterwards, paging through my blog roll I came across:
    http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004997.html

    I think Foriegn was funnier .

35. Brilliant. So many people owning themselves here.

36. i wonder if mr munroe will open this page with popcorn at the ready? or perhaps he’s trying a variation on his own challenge posed in comic 301…

37. Mr. Munroe, I am one of the people who have a English degree. You make hour kind happy. You’re humor is much apreciated.

38. Sir, I must request you stop snooping my AIM chat logs for XKCD content. Do so again and I shall be forced to assume a writing credit.

    Seriously. My friend Kia and I were discussing this very issue likely not more than an hour before this panel went up. Therefore, not only did you snoop our conversation, you acted so hastily on that newfound source of content that you forwent proper spell checking, leading to this embarrassing typo. Such are your just deserts.
    

39. I see what you did there.

40. Welcome to my pain

    I have a terrible problem with It’s and Its.

41. What makes me really sad about this post is that I hardly noticed any mistakes because I’ve been speaking only German for the last three months (I’m an American exchange student in Germany).

    Oh well.

42. I’ve found that anytime I correct someone’s spelling or grammar, in that utterance I make an error. I think we have a wee module in the brain that punishes other modules in the brain for trying to be too clever.

43. I don’t think anyone else got “schedual” -> “schedule”

44. Oh, two others did, nevermind

45. You left out that you misspelled “Excused” as “xkcd”.

46. Randall is tee-hee-heeing uncontrollably right now, I’m sure.

    One that hasn’t been specifically mentioned yet: “I’d” means “I would”, not “I had”.

47. Since the comic is hand-written, it’s not a typo.

48. Actually, Erik, I’d can mean both I would or I had.

    This leads to brilliant fun with the statement “I’d not run,” among others.

49. Bravoe! Well done.

50. Heh. Nice.