If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not.
I literally change my phone number 10 times a year and I don't ever save my contacts.
People have no memory of phone numbers now because of the cell phone - their address book is in a cell phone.
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
You have to step up when your number is called.
The causes and severity of NSA infractions vary widely. One in 10 incidents is attributed to a typographical error in which an analyst enters an incorrect query and retrieves data about U.S phone calls or emails.
When a writer tries to copy another writer, it's doomed to fail.
There was no one in particular I really tried to copy.
An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.