How do you go from "now" to "Scotland?"

[yendi]

No, not a trick question.

See, our local paper managed to do exactly that.

Comments

[emilytheslayer.livejournal.com]

Lol, what? I mean, I looked at it, and that's still my reaction.

According to Google Maps

[darknbitter.livejournal.com]

We could not calculate driving directions between Now, Afghanistan and Scotland, United Kingdom.

[tewok.livejournal.com]

You have no idea how often I ask myself that same question during the course of the day.

[dustyskinandall.livejournal.com]

Now I want to post a couple of pictures of me and to caption them "THEN" and "SCOTLAND!"

Perpetrator of typo explains it

[chris-helms.livejournal.com]

There's a story behind this typo. While I was proofing that page, I was talking about the coming wedding of one of our photographers. She's getting married in Scotland, and that's what I had on my mind.

Re: Perpetrator of typo explains it

[yendi]

Thanks for explaining, Chris. I really was confused at how such an unexpected word made its way into the paper. That definitely qualifies as one of the strangest typos I've seen.