Once upon a time, best beloved, there was a newspaper that originated in an industrial wasteland in the North of England that was known far and wide for its inability to splel corerctly. That newspaper was therefore renamed by Private Eye to an anagram of its name - Grauniad. An update to today's Dlaiy Abultion today illustrates why that name remains despite the possibly unreasonable expectation that modern technology would help.
...In correcting a misspelling of Elie Wiesel's first name yesterday, we incorrectly, and embarrassingly, spelled his second name as Weisel (page 27). Apologies.
The headline on yesterday's report of the House of Commons invasion trial, Minister's shock at anti-hunt protest (page 6), was completely wrong. It was a pro-hunt protest.
Violinist Joshua Bell is misnamed as Julian in today's pre-printed Friday Review, in the feature headlined Ludwig or bust, page 4.
#&183; It is the policy of the Guardian to correct significant errors as soon as possible....
Not only does the Grauniad manage to make errors in its corrections, confuse pro- and anti- and manage to completely cock up names, its corrections department seems unable to handle basic HTML with #&183; instead of · leading to something odd rather than just a · If I were Elie Wiesel I think I'd be relieved that I wasn't referred to as Elly Weasel at some point in the proceedings...