Article Spelling Errors

This cluster revolves around comments criticizing typos and spelling mistakes in Hacker News articles or posts, with authors often apologizing, acknowledging the errors, or promising fixes.

➡️ Stable 0.5x Other
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Keywords

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Sample Comments

pwmanagerdied Sep 6, 2009 View on HN

Use a spell checker next time, each typo makes your articles less appealing.

VinzO May 19, 2009 View on HN

So many typos. A spelling check wouldn't hurt.

apotheon Oct 1, 2009 View on HN

Please point out some spelling errors for me so I can see where I missed them.

johnchristopher Apr 21, 2016 View on HN

Oops. Indeed. I messed up my spelling.

coconut924 Nov 18, 2011 View on HN

A spell check would have been nice.

eghad Jan 29, 2014 View on HN

Please go back and spell check. The simple errors all over the place are a little embarrassing.

davidaa Oct 14, 2015 View on HN

I noticed that too. They couldn't even spell check?

run4yourlives Jan 12, 2010 View on HN

Yeah, sorry about the spelling.

tanylak Jan 11, 2021 View on HN

Damn it, thanks for letting me know. one spelling mistake and everything is doomed. Fixing it right now.

lpellegr Jan 17, 2018 View on HN

No reason, except my bad spelling. Thanks for pointing out.