"Every time you make a typo, the errorists win” is a jocular saying that has been printed on many gift items, such as posters, coffee mugs and T-shirts. “The errorists win” is a pun on “If (...) then the terrorists win,” a phrase popularized after the attacks on New York’s World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

“Maybe I’m just being anal, but if I don’t correct people’s spelling and grammar then it’s sort of like the errorists win” was cited on Twitter on October 10, 2009. “Every time you make a typo, the errorists win” was cited on Twitter on October 11, 2010. Authorship of the saying is unknown; Fred Baube was credited on October 27, 2010.


Twitter
Faxwell Q Monkington
‏@Faxmonkey
Maybe I’m just being anal, but if I don’t correct people’s spelling and grammar then it’s sort of like the errorists win.
2:44 PM - 10 Oct 2009

Twitter
Steven Walling
‏@StevenWalling
“In this war on error you are either with us or against us! If you don’t donate, the errorists win.” http://bit.ly/3rYbtS
5:24 PM - 9 Nov 2009

Twitter
Westy
‏@wwwesty
Every time you make a typo, the errorists win.
8:42 PM - 11 Oct 2010

Google Groups: Joe’s List
quotes
Barak Rosenshine
10/27/10
(...)
Every time you make a typo, the errorists win.
Fred Baube

WeKnowMemes
Every Time You Make A Type The Errorists Win
– NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Google Books
Just My Typo:
From ‘Sinning With the Choir’ to ‘the Large Hardon Collider’
By Drummond Moir
London: Sceptre
2012
Pg. ?:
‘Every time you make a typo, the errorists win.’
Facebook slogan

WeKnowMemes
Every Time You Make A Typo The Errorists Win
– NOVEMBER 23, 2013

Merriam-Webster Dictionary: errorist
Jay Crawford · Works at Mission Valley ROP
A t-shirt that said, “Every time you make a typo an error isn’t wins.”
November 5, 2013 at 6:43pm
(...)
David Kellers · Colorado Technical University
A friends Facebook quote. “Every time you make a typo, the errorists win”
December 4, 2013 at 4:39pm

Union-Tribune (San Diego, CA)
Best jokes about our prankish English language
By Richard Lederer
9:41 A.M.JUNE 21, 2014
Because language is naturally playful, we human beings love to make jokes about words. Here, in order of length, are a dozen of my favorite verbal tour de farces:

• Bad spellers of the world, untie!
• Every time you make a typo, the errorists win.