@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
@nyttypos17 Apr 2025
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 11 and 12, by Tressie McMillan Cottom (@tressiemcphd): she called W.E.B. DuBois “DuBois’s,” making him a possessive for no reason. “The Cosby Show” universe is a bad grammatical error for the “Cosby Show” universe; you need a “the” outside the quotes to modify universe.
Typos of the New York Times
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Replying to @nyttypos @RichardFausset @KannoYoungs @davidwchen
Typos 9 and 10 of the day: this question mark belongs outside the quotes because it isn’t part of the quote. Under your style guide you modify capitalization in quotes to follow your style, so you have to lowercase President. @RichardFausset @KannoYoungs @davidwchen
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Typos 33 and 34 of the day include Lesser Times Desk Pidgin:
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Replying to @teddyschleifer
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is a bad style guide violation for Gov. Gavin Newsom of California, as well as a grammatical error, like if you were a local doctor and I called you local Doctor Schleifer. According to pitch is Lesser Times Desk Pidgin for according to a pitch.
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Typo 35 of the day is a bad affect/effect error:
Typos of the New York Times
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Replying to @carolinelsoler @nytimes
Bad affect/effect error (although contrary to subliterate belief, affect can be a noun, though not here, and effect can be a verb).
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Typos of the New York Times retweeted
Typos of the New York Times
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Replying to @carolinelsoler @nytimes
Bad affect/effect error (although contrary to subliterate belief, affect can be a noun, though not here, and effect can be a verb).
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Typos of the New York Times retweeted
Typos of the New York Times
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Replying to @ewong @nytimes
I didn’t know we were on a first-name basis.
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Hey @nytopinioncopy, I don’t think you saw this because I didn’t tag you in it (though in the next post I said to see above for more corrections of this column)
Typos of the New York Times
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Typos 11 and 12, by Tressie McMillan Cottom (@tressiemcphd): she called W.E.B. DuBois “DuBois’s,” making him a possessive for no reason. “The Cosby Show” universe is a bad grammatical error for the “Cosby Show” universe; you need a “the” outside the quotes to modify universe.
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Typos of the New York Times retweeted
Typos of the New York Times
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Replying to @lmcgaughy
an $799-a-couple marriage retreat is a typo for a $799-a-couple marriage retreat, as $799 starts with a consonant, s.
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Typos of the New York Times retweeted
Typos of the New York Times
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Replying to @nytimes
About 80 times more means about 81 times as much (see your style guide), and New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is a bad style guide violation (and a grammatical error) for Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico. @bradplumer, cc @MikeMadden @doug_alteen_nyt
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Typos of the New York Times retweeted
Typos of the New York Times
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Replying to @nytimes
In your kicker you called undocumented immigrants undocumented immigrations, @amarimow. The Times will be kicking itself for not hiring James Romoser instead of you for a long time (or until it just hires him). cc @RozHelderman
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