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HAPPY INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY!

(Oct. 21) -- DON'T WORRY IF THE INTERNET SEEMS EXTRA-LOUD TODAY. IT'S NOT JUST YOU. What it is actually, is just the sound of International Caps Lock Day celebrations. Created in 2000 by Derek Arnold, the upper-case extravaganza is celebrated twice a year: First on Oct, 22 -- the original Caps Lock Day -- and again on...

'Pubic Schools' Billboard Is a Major Misspelling

(Sept. 23) -- The city of South Bend, Ind., must be very proud of the sex ed classes in its schools. The spelling classes, not so much. A billboard designed to promote South Bend's public school system ended up giving passers-by a very different message when proofreaders omitted the letter "l." The sign urged motorists...

Fix Appears in Declaration of Independence

(July 3) -- With one smudge of a feathered fountain pen back in 1776, American history changed forever. Chemists and archivists analyzing the U.S. Declaration of Independence have long speculated about cross-outs and smudges in Thomas Jefferson's original rough draft of the document. One smudge was much more aggressively...

Background on typo

Typography (from the Greek words τύπος (typos) = form and γραφή (graphe) = writing) is the art and technique of arranging type in order to make language visible.

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