One tiny slip of the keyboard can turn an elegant home into an estate agent’s nightmare.
Top 5 Worst Typos That Almost Spelled Disaster
I pride myself on only sending copy to clients once it has been checked, checked and checked again (by at least two different sets of eyes).
Here are five classic close calls that prove why proofreading matters.
- The Wailed Garden → The Walled Garden
Meant to be a walled garden, of course. Instead of a peaceful retreat, those Venus-like armless statues take on a whole other vibe with buyers imagining ghostly cries drifting through the rose beds. Less country idyll, more horror film.
- Open Pan Living → Open Plan Living
Open-plan living is all about sociable space and flow; often associated with kitchens. Open pan living? That smacks of bacon grease and an all you can eat breakfast with no escape from the smoke alarm.
- Beautiful Beans → Beautiful Beams
Nothing sells a period home like original oak beams…unless a typo serves up beautiful beans instead. Wholesome, yes. Architectural? Not so much. Open a window please…
- Birchfield → Bitchfield
Grandma was always amazed by the speed at which I touch typed. Glad she never saw this one. The proud house name Birchfield is only one stray letter away from something altogether cattier.
- Shire Cottage → Shite Cottage
A quaint country name that loses all its appeal with a casual slip of the middle finger. From bucolic to bathroom humour in a single keystroke.
Proofread twice, (if not thrice), publish once. Because the wrong word can change everything.
