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by Staff | Aug 30, 2011 8:00 am

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From the same house in Hamden, two scholars fought for the top spot in the Independent’s ongoing typo-catching contest.

In the end, they both won.

Leanna Boychenko, who’s 27, and Sean Harrigan, who’s 30, received their prize mugs at the Independent newsroom last week. They blew the rest of the pack out of the water in the latest typo-catching contest. Their only competition was each other.

The two are grad students who live together in Hamden and study in the classics department at Yale. Boychenko said their scholarly work may have given them just a small advantage. “I guess only in that we read for a living.”

The new round of typo-catching has just begun. Notify us of our typos and if you catch the most, you’ll earn a New Haven Independent coffee cup.

Comments

posted by: Gretchen Pritchard on August 30, 2011 8:38am

You’d get more entrants in the contest if you’d feature it more prominently on the home page. I didn’t even realize you were still doing it. Where’s the link?

posted by: that makes sense on August 30, 2011 8:41am

grad students that have more time on their hands than others.

makes sense.

posted by: Paul on August 30, 2011 8:09pm

Havin more typoes would make it eaier for the ilerate among us to get a chance to win to. Thanks, Bubba.

posted by: Sad state of affairs on August 31, 2011 12:41am

Sad when the independent needs its readers to catch typos rather then the so called journalists or editors.

posted by: Roxanne on September 1, 2011 5:31am

Does anyone else find this play on words to be somewhat in poor taste, considering the current state of affairs in the city?

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