A plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

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Entry from November 28, 2014
“Every time you make a typo, the errorists win”

“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.

Posted by Barry Popik
New York CityMedia/Newspapers/Magazines/Internet • Friday, November 28, 2014 • Permalink


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