A couple of restaurant review mistakes from Poynter.com for you to ponder.
1. Canada’s Hamilton Spectator: In a review for Sarcoa Restaurant, the reviewer referred to it as “Sarcoma Restaurant” – a form of cancer.
2. A Sacramento Bee reviewer reviewed Silva’s Sheldon Inn, referencing Don Brown, whom the reviewer believed was the sous chef. It wasn’t a very positive review. The problem? Don Brown had been dead for over two years, a fact noted on the restaurant website.
I may have my share of typos, but geeze!
A gaff, in its most common nautical definition, is a long pole with a hook on it, used for spearing a big fish.
A gaffe, on the other hand, is an embarrassing error.
They happen to us all.
Please tell me you misspelled “gaffe” intentionally or was it a Freudian slip?