Typo negative: the best and worst of Grauniad mistakes over 200 years
From ‘The Taming of the Screw’ to ‘irritable bowl syndrome’, the paper is fondly known for its slips Composite: Guardian Design/The Guardian Composite: Guardian Design/The Guardian
Wed 12 May 2021 02.00 EDT
“If anyone wanted to construct a machine for the production of error, a newspaper would probably be it.” So wrote Ian Mayes, the Guardian’s first readers’ editor, in his debut column in that role in 1997.
His appointment marked the start of a daily corrections and clarifications column, a first for a UK newspaper, which has mined a rich seam of typos and other slips for which “the Grauniad” is fondly known.
Hey Geelong, Paris called and wants its Ritz back
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There’s great excitement about Monday’s planned opening of the Geelong Ritz Hotel, which breathless local coverage has described as transforming “Geelong’s ugly duckling … into a magnificent swan”.
Is Geelong the new Paris of the south?
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In fact, the excitement is so great it has travelled 17,000 kilometres across the globe to Paris and that city’s famed Ritz Paris Hotel – “where French art de vivre meets the elegance of Belle Époque” – is none too happy.