Typos of the New York Times

@nyttypos

I am an appellate lawyer and persnickety dude. As a hobby, I correct typos in the Times, which no longer employs copy editors and consequently has tons of typos

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Typos of the New York Times@nyttypos · Apr 18

I heard I was a clue on Celebrity Jeopardy last night. Unfortunately the prompt was not “They call this lawyer the living Christ of amateur copyediting”

TTypos of the New York Times@nyttypos · Apr 17

I heard I was a clue on Celebrity Jeopardy last night. Unfortunately the prompt was not “They call this lawyer the living Christ of amateur copyediting”

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Typos of the New York Times@nyttypos · 22 h

The percentage of one-sentence bylines by Times Opinion editors that contain some stupid typo is incredibly high. cc @jfidelino_nyt

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Typos of the New York Times@nyttypos · 1 h

Your headline is ungrammatical; Royals and Twins need to be possessive as well as Astros because each team separately possesses its own plans. Quasi-sentient talking bowtie @Ken_Rosenthal continues not to know the difference between apostrophes and open quote marks. @MarcCarig

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Typos of the New York Times@nyttypos · 2 h

Check out the illiterate mispunctuation in the picture card. cc @CECabrera_

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Typos of the New York Times@nyttypos · 2 h

Hi, please delete, sports news’s worst social media team: his name is Cristopher Sanchez, not Christopher Sanchez. cc the leader of sports news’s worst social media team, Times sports content farm subsidiary editorial director of audience @CECabrera_.

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Typos of the New York Times@nyttypos · 3 h

You don’t abbreviate The Wall Street Journal as The Wall St. Journal, as you might if we were just talking about an actual street. @maggieNYT @GlennThrush

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Typos of the New York Times@nyttypos · 10 h

You need a comma after Washington, D.C. @MattFutterman

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Typos of the New York Times@nyttypos · 12 h

Backwards quotation marks. @jimrutenberg

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Typos of the New York Times@nyttypos · 21 h

Under your style guide you modify capitalization in quotes to follow your style, so you have to lowercase Administrator. Bonus extra space. @LFFriedman, cc @LyndseyLayton @doug_alteen_nyt

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Typos of the New York Times@nyttypos · Jul 22

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NNew York Times Arts@nytimesarts · Jul 22

Betsy Wolfe shines as the inventor of the Miracle Mop in the otherwise lacklaster “Joy,” a musical now playing Off Broadway. nyti.ms/415CSFw

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Typos of the New York Times@nyttypos · Jul 22

Capitalizing products here is so dumb. @ezwrites

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