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15| Mistakes

Kinds of mistakes:

👉Mistake 🤦‍♂️
something incorrect that you accidentally do, say, or write
✋I made a mistake - it should say £230, not £320.

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👉Error (formal) 🤦‍♂️ - a mistake
✋He had made a serious error on his tax form.

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👉Misprint - 🤦‍♂️ a small mistake in something that is printed
✋There was a misprint in the article, and instead of 'pleasant' it said 'pheasant'.

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👉Typo (informal) 🤦‍♂️
a mistake in something that has been typed or printed
✋I spotted a couple of typos in the letter.

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👉Inaccuracy (formal) 🤦‍♂️
a piece of information that is not completely correct
✋The report contained several inaccuracies.

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👉Mix-up - 🤦‍♂️ a careless mistake in which one name, time, address etc has been confused with another, so that the details of something are wrong
✋There was a mix-up over the train times and I missed my train.

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👉Slip-up - 🤦‍♂️ a careless mistake when you are doing something
✋The other team took advantage of the goalie's slip-up.

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👉Oversight - 🤦‍♂️ a mistake in which you forget something or do not notice something
✋Through some oversight, the brochures were not ready by the right date.

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👉a slip of the tongue 🤦‍♂️
a mistake in which you accidentally say a similar sounding word
✋When I said Thursday, I meant Tuesday. It was a slip of the tongue.

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👉faux pas 🤦‍♂️
an embarrassing mistake in a social situation, when you do or say something that you shouldn't
✋Seokjin, trying to be funny, cracked a dad-joke. A deathly silence followed this faux pas.