The end of the school year is causing a spate of delightful gaffes relating to yearbooks, diplomas and bad uses of technology. Ask yourself, what would YOUR name get changed to?
Faulty spell-checker causes embarrassing yearbook typos
June 03, 2008 | www.poconorecord.com
MIDDLETOWN (AP) — A computerized spell-checker run amok christened several Pennsylvania high school students with new — and in some cases unflattering — last names.
Middletown Area High School’s yearbook listed Max Zupanovic as “Max Supernova,” Kathy Carbaugh as “Kathy Airbag” and Alessandra Ippolito as “Alexandria Impolite,” just to name a few.
“It was kind of funny, but kind of rude at the same time,” Ippolito said.
The mistakes were found on only four of the yearbook’s 176 pages — those that featured the band, chorus and student council, co-editor Amanda Gummo said.
Ed Patrick of Taylor Publishing, which printed the book, said his company takes responsibility for the errors and will provide free stickers printed with the correct names.
“It happens all the time, every year,” Patrick said. “Look at any yearbook in the country.”
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