Legitimate question, why do people keep typing “where” instead of “were”? Many typos are understandable where letters that are next to each other accidentally get swapped, but you have to go out of your way to put the h in there.
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kirkoman@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
The yellow one was for businesses. Residential phone numbers and often addresses where in the white book.
MrQuallzin@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
They do it to annoy you. Just you.
borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
Probably they’re swiping on a phone keyboard and autocorrect fucked them, or they’re using text to speech and the diction fucked up and they didn’t proofread it.
far_university1990@reddthat.com 2 hours ago
If type like sound in head, where and were same. And type learned enough not think about every letter.
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
In smaller areas they’d make the yellow book and white book the same book to save on binding and distribution. I remember back in the very early 2000’s my rural county still got the 400+ page yellow pages delivered every year.
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
I think in the UK it was just yellow with “The Yellow Pages”, the actual name of the book itself and the company in charge of it. I know it eventually became just businesses but I’m sure it was more than that before the millennium. Now it’s just a business ratings website just called “Yell”.
digger@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
Came here to day this… Because I’m old.
Ronan@piefed.social 6 hours ago
Depends on where you are from I guess, there were many countries that used yellow pages for residential.
kirkoman@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
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TheBat@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
All of this could’ve been avoided had Sarah asked her roommate to get phone line in her name.
MotoAsh@piefed.social 7 hours ago
Samsonite! I was close.
djsaskdja@reddthat.com 3 hours ago
Swanson