An official government Twitter account celebrated ‘Burns Night’ with the national bard’s surname ‘mistakenly’ translated The Scottish government has drawn ridicule for an apparent translation gaffe after publishing greetings for Burns Night – an annual celebration of national poet Robert Burns – wherein officials mistakenly replaced his surname with the Gaelic word for burns caused […]
Etichetă: blunder
Mafia boss caught after 20 years following Google Maps blunder
Italian police have credited the app with capturing a photo of a crime group leader who’d been in hiding since 2002 Anti-Mafia authorities in Italy have credited a Google Street View picture for revealing the location of a member of Sicily’s Stidda Mafia group who escaped a Rome prison in 2002 partway through a life […]
ITV announces death of Pope in Christmas blunder
ITV News presenter Kylie Pentelow mistakenly announced the death of 85-year-old Pope Francis during a segment on his Christmas Day address. “The Pope’s festive address focused on his prayers for the pandemic to come to an end. He said vaccines should be made available to those most in need,” Pentelow reported on Saturday evening, before […]
Obama makes geographical blunder at COP26 in Glasgow
Barack Obama made a rather stunning geographical gaffe during his COP26 speech in Glasgow, when he referred to Scotland as “the Emerald Isles” – a poetic name which, when used in the singular at least, refers to Ireland. “Since we’re in the Emerald Isles here,” former US President Barack Obama said while speaking in Scotland’s […]