My inner copyeditor was gleeful when it came across three fun real-life errors in one day!
A Perspective on the Prospective Employee
This paragraph is from a work email introducing an employee taking on a new position.
Prospective—an adjective meaning “likely to happen at a future date; concerned with or applying to the future.”
Perspective—a noun meaning “a particular attitude toward or way of regarding something; a point of view.”
In our regional dialect, many people likely pronounce “perspective” as “prospective.” I suppose we all know what is meant—even if we don’t know how to spell it or say it.
An Unusual Date
This is a flyer from our local ski resort:
The date is pronounced “twenty-thirth,” I imagine.
The Curious Case of the Canine Dog
This paragraph is from a news article about electronics-sniffing police dogs.
I can only imagine that the officer quoted in the article was referring to a “K-9 dog”—which we all know is a term for a police dog—and the reporter recorded this as “canine dog”—which just looks redundant and silly.