BANGKOK – Thai journalism recorded another milestone yesterday when local English-language newspaper The Nation broke the existing world record for the world’s largest typo.
The record-setting error was posted on the top of The Nation’s website, where a slideshow rotates several images that are large enough to fill most computer screens. Each image contains a graphic headline in 136-point font, making them the largest known headlines in cyberspace journalism.
Tuesday’s rotation featured a promotion for an upcoming performance of William Shakespeare’s play “The Tempest,” which was described as an event that “STROMS INTO ASIA.”
The enormous size and prominent placement of the glaring error, compounded by the fact that it was advertising an art event that did not merit being included in the day’s top news, added up to what journalists are hailing as “the greatest online typo of the new millennium.”
No one at The Nation was available for comment, as the phone number listed on their website appears to be missing a digit.
