…despite previous corrections and/or stylebook warnings, we referred (page 11, August 1) to an accident on the road to the Sandbanks peninsular, instead of peninsula; we misspelled the former French president Mitterrand, calling him Mitterand (French politicians accused of assisting Rwandan genocide, page 15, August 6); Joint European Taurus (caption to picture with an obituary for Nicol Peacock, page 34, August 7) should have been Torus; and on August 8 (Credit crunch: live the crisis, see the movie) we again turned the financial analyst Warren Buffett [into? (sic)] Warren Buffet. Restaurateurs, a frequent Guardian casualty, became restauranters (Today’s picks, page 2, July 31).
Fresher errors in recent days have included…
But remember: you can trust them to get the facts right on Iraq, and global warming, and jihad…
