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'Oh no, I spelled it wrong': Nurse runs solo marathon in shape of 'Boston Strog'

110 points| mgsouth | 5 years ago |cbc.ca

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[+] preinheimer|5 years ago|reply
See also: the Brookyln Bridge poster -

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cameronmoll/the-brookly...

[+] ipsum2|5 years ago|reply
That's pretty funny, I had to do a second take to notice the typo. I wonder if it's because there aren't any modern words that end in -lyn or are close to brooklyn.
[+] laxatives|5 years ago|reply
Happens all the time when you are type setting, like writing in LaTeX. Its not designed to be your word processor and its easy to think you making minor edits/fixes when you are really quietly destroying everything you had already revised dozens of times.
[+] boublepop|5 years ago|reply
Call me a cynic but these days it just seems like “mistakes” like these and the many examples from commercials and games must be deliberate. I mean why try to aim for something flawless when intentional mistakes can help make your content go viral.
[+] rimutaka|5 years ago|reply
It's a painful "mistake". Running a marathon is painful. Your legs run out of glycogen after about 30km and all you can think of is "I want to stop". I'm surprised her mind was sharp enough to pick up the mistake.

Time: 3h 46m, pace: 5:21. That's fast for what is more like a training run. She could probably do solid 5:00 pace in a real competition.

https://www.strava.com/activities/3326004383

[+] qqn|5 years ago|reply
I thought this about the Tesla truck with broken windows too. I'm unsure about the intention, but I definitely paid more attention to it and shared it more because of this.
[+] laurieg|5 years ago|reply
My favourite spelling mistake is from the Nottingham County Gaol and is all the worse for being set in stone:

https://i.imgur.com/h6XiZE3.jpg

Take a close look at the word "gaol". Originally, the stone mason spelt it as goal and had to try to tidy it up as best he could.

[+] markstos|5 years ago|reply
Hats off to her.

I ran a marathon-distance run each of the last four weekends and all I managed to spell was "O".

Good way to escape the news cycle for a few hours!

[+] mgsouth|5 years ago|reply
>It took Lindsay Devers months of training and meticulous planning to plot out her marathon-length run along the Boston riverside to spell out an inspirational message for her city.

But in the end, she forgot one important thing — the letter N.

QA failure :) She had multiple friends look over the plan, and everybody missed it.

[+] goldenkey|5 years ago|reply
Sounds like BS. Probably just a publicity stunt. I mean, if you draw out the route first, you clearly are gonna notice the N missing. Only way this is believable is if she didn't draw it out first. That seems a rather arcane way to plan something (as verbal directions -- turn here, turn there, etc..) I think any sane person would just draw it out like a maze.
[+] brockwhittaker|5 years ago|reply
"Boston strog" is how you would say "Boston Strong" if you had a cold, perhaps.

Cute.

[+] bitwize|5 years ago|reply
That would be "Bostod Strog"
[+] cafard|5 years ago|reply
Precisely: my first thought was of Guys and Dolls, and "A Person Could Develop a Cold".
[+] hinkley|5 years ago|reply
> All these times that we are currently having are so uncertain and I just wanted to, like, show that there's a little bit of normalcy still in life.

What’s more normal than a very public typo?

[+] cultus|5 years ago|reply
It least it wasn't Boston Strogg.
[+] solstice|5 years ago|reply
So we can rule out she's a Quake fan?
[+] gorgoiler|5 years ago|reply
Owning a mistake like that so openly is pretty inspiring, in an already upbeat story.
[+] ck2|5 years ago|reply
of course so much better than if she did it right, imagine the fun laughter someday if you wore this as a t-shirt at the race

but seriously, wtf who registered the domain name?!

[+] mattlondon|5 years ago|reply
Ironically enough, they also spelt the title wrong too.

I guess this is one of those en-US-vs-the-rest-of-the-english-speaking-world weirdnesses? I've never seen/heard "spelled" before in my native-English-speaking life as far I can remember.

[+] bitwize|5 years ago|reply
Americans almost never use "spelt", but in British English, "spelled" and "spelt" are both considered correct.