In the old days of
hot metal type and manual pasteup,
the Guardian was the worst, by far, in terms of
typos and misplaced letters. Since they have moved to
digital typesetting, they have improved massively but have never been able to shake the label given to them by those
cheeky blighters at
Private Eye. Many of the new generation of errors come from the
quirks of automated
spellcheckers rather than the
transposed letters of physical type.
And they do fess up to their
errors; not just factual mistakes, but
homonyms, abused
apostrophes and other horrors. Hurrah for the People's Editor (who has a weekly
column).