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Red faces after discovery $2.3bn worth of currency has a misprint of the word responsibility in banknote's 'micro-text'
46 million of Australia's new $50 notes have been printed with a typo, the Reserve Bank has confirmed.
The "new and improved" $50 banknote was rolled out in October last year, with a host of new technologies designed to improve accessibility and prevent counterfeiting.
But the yellow note also contains a typo that misspells the word "responsibility".
The note features the Indigenous writer and inventor David Unaipon on one side, and Edith Cowan, Australia's first female member of parliament, on the other – as it has since 1995.
The RBA has printed "micro-text" on the note with excerpts of Unaipon's book, Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines, and Cowan's first speech to parliament.
The small error occurred on Cowan's side, in the text of her speech.
"It is a great responsibilty [sic] to be the only woman here, and I want to emphasise the necessity which exists for other women being here," it says.
Also at Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the BBC and The New York Times.
(Score: 3, Funny) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Friday May 10 2019, @05:08PM (5 children)
It's just an alternatively factual method of spelling it!
Now I'm of to spend some curency for some of my dets, privy and pooblic.
G'day!
This sig for rent.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday May 10 2019, @05:12PM (1 child)
You can take those notes to the privy, for wiping!
(Score: 3, Informative) by krishnoid on Friday May 10 2019, @09:06PM
And when you're done, you can just wash them off [rba.gov.au]!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 10 2019, @08:29PM (1 child)
Down Under has their own orange guy?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 11 2019, @12:24PM
no we have abos as you can see from the spelling on the recent bank not release
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 11 2019, @12:22PM
Oh, Come on, you can do better than that.
How about 'With this latest use of the word by the Government the dictionary and Scrabble rules WILL be updated to reflect this alternatvie spelling'
<sarcasm>see wut eye deed their?</sarcasm>