Much to our severe dismay, we discovered a few heinous errors on the FIFA site this morning when we accidentally searched "qualifiying", having misspelled "qualifying" in the search menu.
Rather than receiving the dreaded "No matches to your query" or some such similar message, we were faced with the even more portentous reality that there are in fact four articles posted on the official FIFA site, in plain view of hundreds of millions of site visitors, with the word qualifiying in.
Samples:
"Colombia will face Chile for their Germany 2006 World Cup qualifiying round on Sep. 5."
(original article to be piece here.)
"The two sides have met twice in qualifiying, in the first stage of the preliminaries for Italy 1990."
(original article can be read here.)
Though the first sample is alarming, it is at least excerpted from a very short piece, more like a blurb, that was probably written in five minutes, and of course we all make mistakes, so it's excusable.
The second example, however, is from a genuine article. Scary.
Check out the original, misspelled query.
Great idea! I could have done one of these in med school with some of our hand-outs. There=their=they're kinds of mistakes were the norm. Apparently scientists can't write either.
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