Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 134

Here’s an example of a writer undermining the seriousness of a situation through lack of care:

Link: The Telegraph, ‘11 miners trapped in small goal mine in Honduras’

It’s now been corrected, but Des Pond of Slough wasn’t the only one to capture it for posterity. A Google search of "goal mine in honduras" finds 120 results that echo the original error, and it’s also enshrined in The Telegraph’s URL, linked above, which includes the story identifer ‘10945255/11-miners-trapped-in-small-gold-mine-in-Honduras.html’.

11 miners trapped in small goal mine in Honduras