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I work in an industry rife with typos, and can assure you that typos are missed all the time, and it doesn't indicate a greater QA problem or lack of QA. It's just a missed typo.



Where I work, we treat grammar and spelling errors as a sev 2 bug (sev 1 being highest.) It will quickly erode trust in your product even if everything else is working fine. All of our customer-facing text (UI/CLI/API names, labels, error messages, etc.) go through QA and also a separate documentation team for consistency and spelling checks.


Here in the UK, one of the national newspapers, The Guardian was so famous for typing mistakes that it was nicknamed 'The Grauniad' by Private Eye, which is a satirical magazine.

It's actually so well know that http://www.grauniad.co.uk redirects to the correct sight


Lul your just overeacting!

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Idk man this isn’t just a typo it is the company name. Would Nike misspell their name on a product?


Nuke sneakers would be kinda cool actually. Maybe Nake - proud sponsors of this year's Olympics streakers!


in other contexts this is referred to as "alarm fatigue" .. there is no assurance and masking it is not the move here




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