June 5, 2004
Priceless
The St. Louis Post Dispatch ran the following correction this morning:
A story in Friday's Metro section about the National Spelling Bee misspelled the winning word. The correct spelling is "autochthonous."
UPDATE: I wanted to send this into the WSJ's Best of the Web but the post never put the correction up on their website. It skipped from June 3 to June 8 without mention of any June 5 corrections. If I was as cynical as their leading columnist (who has assured me that I'm not), I'd say they didn't want to post it to keep it from being widely linked on the internet.
Posted by Kevin Murphy at June 5, 2004 8:26 AM | Fun
