Shoulda Spelled My Beans

News misprinted

Note: As of 2020, we’ve put Shoulda Spelled My Beans, minus its formatting, back in its big, sturdy bag as a kind of burlap time capsule of late 2010s web whoopsies. Enjoy the fin-de-decade faux-pas for what they were, excuse our French roast, and vive les années vingt.

As part of our overall blog, “Shoulda Spelled My Beans” is a little grove of links (usually) pointing you to great stories on intriguing topics that just happen to have teeny, tiny typos, spelling slips, grammar gaffes or punctuation peccadillos that caught our eye. Slips that maybe, just maybe, a few games of Spell the Beans might have helped prevent.

First and foremost, we focus on the value of the journalism, with the minor mistakes simply a convenient common gateway to them. As well, we make no claims as to any benefit of playing the game. If there is any effect, it’s probably just as likely to pop up in some other area of your life as spelling itself, but we present this as a meta sort of way to make the site just a little relevant to ongoing events and conversation.

We’ll show the 25 most recent posts here, with the most recent at the top. See the full listing here, and of course there’s the whole blog including news about the app’s development, design, and gameplay. Be sure to check out all the great storytelling out there, and don’t sweat the small stuff!