Words That Never Should Have Been Written

The result of a missing vowel:
Army to build hug laboratory in Cambridge

How a missing word changes everything:
State plans to lay 150 workers

The effect of ambiguity on a headline:
Stud tires out
Tiny rods prevent pregnancy
Police say man hid crack in buttocks
Breaking wind could cut costs
Congress votes for running trains over union workers
Traffic dead rise slowly
Wife charges battery
Judge to hand down decision in union suit
Pedestrian critical after being hit by car
Escaped leopard believed spotted
Teacher strikes idle kids

Breaking lines of copy in the wrong place:
Soviet virgin lands
short of goal again

becomes

Soviet virgin
lands short
of goal again

Wrong way to use a loaded book or play title:
‘Rape of Lucretia’ done with skill and taste

Some tasteless attempts at humor:
Father of 11 fined for failure to stop
Laxative company cleans out staff

Misplaced modifier:
Free vaccinations
sought for every
child by Clinton

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