AUSTRALIA’S NEW $50 BILL HAS A TYPO

Australia’s central bank is taking the blame for a typo on one of their new $50 bills. The bills were released in October and feature Edith Cowan, the first female member of an Australian parliament. Appearing on the bill is an extract from her first speech to the Western Australia state Parliament in 1921. Within that text, an eagle-eyed radio listener (* Yay, radio!) noticed that there was a microscopic misspelling of the word “responsibility”. The word appears three times on the note, and every time, the third “I” is missing, so that the word reads, “responsibilty”. There are some 46 million bills already in use across the country. The bank says it will correct the mistake during the next printing.
* Meanwhile, they have fired the person resplonsible.
* That’s just the level of koala-ty you’d expect from Australia.
* Although, to be fair, “responsibil-ty” is how the word sounds with an Australian accent.
* Try it! “E-yah, oy rikken s’moy responsibil-ty tih weesh yeew a g-die, mite!”
* It’s not as bad a mistake as when Austria put a kangaroo on their nickel.
* With 46 million printed, they should become collectors’ items in about 470 years.