A headline about Wells Fargo on our home page on Thursday, and in the print paper Friday, got an unusual amount of attention from readers — and not just because they have strong views on the bank. The home page headline, with James Stewart’s column about the big fines imposed on the bank, framed the topic like this:Are Fines Just Deserts, or Beating a Dead Horse? (The print headline had a similar theme: Just Deserts, or Just Cruel?) Scores of readers, not to mention a few colleagues, contacted us urgently to point out the embarrassing typo: We meant “desserts,” right? Many people are familiar with the use of this expression in the sense of getting “what you had coming to you,” usually meaning punishment.

Source: New York Times April 20, 2018 20:38 UTC