Another day commemorating a big part of my professional career.

I used to have an anonymous blog where I collected typos and other gaffes that I caught and fixed as an editor, but it was so anonymous that I can’t find it now, years later. The one I remember best from those days was a report about how the Everglades was being destroyed “at the hands of invasive snakes”—a terrifying image.

I have also seen references to “taking variegated classes for your major” and “a baroque antiseptic.” (Auto-incorrect strikes again—that one was supposed to be “antique.”)

Sometimes it’s not a misused word so much as bad structure. I changed a lot of photo cutlines that referred to things like “The mayor presented an award to Anderson Friday”—no doubt for his assistance to Robinson Crusoe.

And then there are those times where the word is right but fat fingers interfere. My own most common typo is probably the Untied States of America. My husband’s is “tge,” which isn’t as funny but is just as embarrassing.

So many typos are unfortunately off-color in nature. The embarrassing one you read about a lot is “pubic” for “public.” But a guy I used to work with turned red every time we mercilessly reminded him of the email he sent announcing that he was taking a “dick day.”

Auto-incorrect has provided the internet with all kinds of fun along these lines. Personally, I almost never mean to write “ducking.” The one time I did mean to use that word, in reference to a woman avoiding her boss, my phone changed it the other way, and the mutual friend with whom I was chatting was first scandalized and then greatly amused.

What’s the funniest error along these lines that you’ve encountered?