2008 Typo Hunt Across America
An Outreach Mission of The
Typo
Eradication Advancement League
(TEAL)
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Press
When Words Fail, He's the Fixer
Times Union
May 13, 2008
Its a problem, but fear not, word nerds. Their is hope
for those who wince when they encounter Americans
grammatical mistakes.
Bad Spelling Shot Down in US
BBC News
May 8, 2008
The 'correction cowboy' is on a mission across the US to right the wrongs of poor
spelling and grammar.
Punctuation Warriors Fulfill Every English Teacher's Fantasy
Nashuatelegraph.com
May 8, 2008
At first glance, it sounds like a terrorist organization. But when you see the acronym, it has more of a harmless "Project Runway" connotation.
The Typo Eradication Advancement League (TEAL) is dedicated to documenting every grammatical error that nakedly stares at the public from street signs, shop windows and restaurant menus. In the lazy era of e-mail and text messaging, the enemy is everywhere.
Jeff Deck's Fearless War on Typos
OhmyNews
April 30, 2008
Mild-mannered New Englander Jeff Deck, 28, from Manchester, New Hampshire, hated typos so much that he founded the Typo Eradication Advancement League (TEAL). Then on March 5 he set out on "a crusade to edit America", an epic journey that took him to the U.S. west coast. He's now in Wisconsin on his way home.
Conversations on Language: Jeff Deck
Watch Yer Language
April 25, 2008
On March 5, between jobs and with some cash to burn, Jeff Deck set out from Somerville, Mass., on a mission that could charitably be called quixotic: traversing the country in a 1997 Nissan Sentra, fixing typos in America's signs under the auspices of the Typo Eradication Advancement League (TEAL).
A crusade to edit America
The Seattle Times
April 23, 2008
The other day a man wearing a brown fedora strolled through Pike Place Market. Unlike most tourists, he wasn't there to browse or buy.
He was there to edit. Yes, edit. Toting markers, chalk and white-out, the man known as the Indiana Jones of typos had come to do battle with this city's misspellings and botched punctuation.
Betting on the Oil Markets
The Takeaway
April 23, 2008
The last time that we saw gas prices rising this quickly was in the 1970s, when Americans responded by cutting their gas use by 30 percent. Lisa Margonelli, author of "Oil on the Brain: Adventures from Pump to Pipeline," says the high price of oil is, in part, driven by one group of people that surprised us: oil speculators.
Up and Edit
Longmont Times-Call
April 18, 2008
Some time back, I voted against a school board candidate for a simple, if petty, reason. His campaign pamphlet had a misused apostrophe.
So sue me. TEAL would understand.
One Typo at a Time
Holder Tonight
April 18, 2008
There is a man in Klamath, California who is making the world a safer place, one typo at a time. Jeff Deck has an eye for spotting bad punctuation and misspelled words. He is doing his best to grammatically correct the United States with TEAL, the Typo Eradication Advancement League.
Grammar Grater: Itinerant Editors
Minnesota Public Radio
April 17,
2008
Jeff Deck wanted to make a difference.
When the 2002 graduate of Dartmouth College attended his five-year reunion, he mingled with classmates who were becoming doctors and lawyers and other people of influence. The experience inspired Deck to find a way he could have an impact on the world. "I tried to think of what I was good at," he says. "Fixing typos was what I came up with."
Linguistic Pedants of the World Unite
Guardian Unlimited
April 14, 2008
For centuries, travellers have crossed America to explore it, conquer it, settle it, exploit it and study it. Now, a small but righteous crew are traversing America in order to edit it. Jeff Deck, and his friends at the Typo Eradication Advancement League (Teal), are spending three months driving from San Francisco, California, to Somerville, Massachusetts, on a mission to correct every misspelled, poorly punctuated, sloppily phrased item of signage they encounter en route.
How to Fix America: First, Correct the Typos
Utne Reader
April 10, 2008
Now here's a mission I'll happily support: Two grammar nerds are traveling across the country, cleaning up America's mistakes one typo at a time. It's the Typo Hunt Across America!
Deck '02 works to fix the country, one typo at a time
The Dartmouth
April 8, 2008
Jeff Deck '02 is best described as a "grammar vigilante." Deck, armed with his "typo correction kit" — which consists of permanent and dry-erase markers, several types of Wite-Out, chalk, pens and crayons — set off on an odyssey of typographical nit-picking to rectify grammatical injustices about one month ago.
Road Scholar Copy Edits America
ABC World News
April 6, 2008
Some of the littlest things are big to Jeff Deck, who is traveling the country in search of mistakes.
He's not looking for big ones, just the small ones like the missing "c" in "cappucino" and the misplaced apostrophe in "Today Special's" on the menu board.
Grammer vigilantes are on a mission: Eradicate typos
The Virginian-Pilot
April 5, 2008
After leaving New Mexico and driving into Arizona, Benjamin Herson screamed in rage. He had just passed an abomination, a crime against nature, something so egregious that it shook his very core. So Herson and his college buddy Jeff Deck, traveling across country in a '97 Nissan Sentra, sped to the sight. When they arrived, they jumped over a barbed wire fence and stared.
Jeff Deck Travels Across the Country in Search of Typos
Next American City
April 3, 2008
They packed 48 pop tarts, sleeping bags and a tent in preparation for a quest that would eventually bring them from the Boston suburb of Somerville all the way to Los Angeles. They set up a blogging community so that friends and family could donate food and cheap housing. They organized all of this for the sole purpose of providing America with good grammar and punctuation.
On the Road Looking for Typos
The Boston Globe
March 29, 2008
Hopper and Fonda went looking for adventure and whatever else would come their way on their epic cross-country odyssey. Borat set out to find the heart and soul of America, plus any part of Pamela Anderson he could get his hands on. Jeff Deck and Benjamin Herson have a different objective in mind as they motor across the country this spring in their '97 Nissan Sentra.
They chase the misplaced apostrophe, the disagreeing subject and verb.
Bluff the Listener
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
March 22,
2008
"To Dream the Impossible Dream" One person's quest
to fix something that's, well, kinda lame.
The Grammar Police
The Galveston County Daily News
March 21, 2008
I have a shameful confession to make, shameful for a writer anyway. I can't spell. It's terrible. I blame the four formative years I spent in England, where they put u's in strange places and occasionally mistake a y for an i, as in tyre. But that's really a cop-out, considering how many years I've been back stateside. I'm glad I didn't know about the Typo Eradication Advancement League's visit to Galveston yesterday. I probably would have lost sleep.
Die Liga der Korrekten kommt!
Tagesschau
March 13, 2008
Manche Menschen wissen einfach, dass sie für eine besondere Aufgabe geboren sind. So auch der US-Amerikaner Jeff Deck, der seine Mission bereits in der Schulzeit entdeckte: Er errang Platzierungen in mehreren Buchstabierwettbewerben - und stand daher, wie es zumindest einschlägige Spielfilme und Fernsehserien lehren - nicht unbedingt an der Spitze der Beliebtheitsskala seiner Mitschüler.
Three Things You Should Know Today
The Michigan Daily
March 13, 2008
1. A Boston man is travelling the country correcting typos and grammatical errors on signs, billboards and postings, National Public Radio reported. Jeff Deck calls his brand of vigilante copy editing the Typo Eradication Advancement League.
Man Travels Country to Fixe Typo's
NPR, The Bryant Park Project
March 6,
2008
Jeff Deck of Boston had seen a lot of misspellings on signs around his city, and one day he decided he just couldn't take it anymore.
Deck cobbled together the Typo Eradication Advancement League and set off on a nationwide quest to repair the mistakes by any means necessary, including chalk and adhesive letters. For the next three months, the four team members will travel highways and byways wielding the red pen of justice and blogging their exploits.