The ‘Deaths’ column is not the happiest section of the newspaper, obviously enough, but this misprint makes it terrifying.
In the production of any newspaper, there is liberal use of what is known as placeholder text. It does exactly what it says on the tin and fills in a space until the real text arrives.
Usually it is just random letters, or Latin text, but sometimes a hurried sub-editor will just put in ‘x is coming’ as they wait for the copy to arrive.
Most times it is caught before it hits the shops but as this tweet from @AndrewBloch proves when it gets through it can look bad and this one is as bad as it gets.
We just hope that no copies made it to the local old folks’ home…
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