Typo Phile #2

Here is a sampling of recent typos spotted by several regular readers of the local press,  since the publication of the first Typo Phile installment:

1. “a comprehensive economic sweet of incentives”
   [suite] Register-Star
   
2. “I’d defiantly do it again”
   [definitely] Register-Star
3. “Lantern, who’s president”
   [whose] Register-Star
4. “[the garden] should not look unkept”
   [unkempt] Register-Star
5. “I was sort of taken back by them” and
   “they’re quite taken back by the DASNY estimates”
   [taken aback] Register-Star

NOTE #1: For this installment, the names of the authors have been omitted to protect both the innocent and the less-than-innocent.

NOTE #2: Both of the misuses of “taken back” above came from statements by Hudson Mayor Richard Scalera; so arguably the reporter might have simply been reflecting the speaker’s mistake, rather than mishearing a correct usage. To be taken back is to reminisce; to be taken aback is to be astonished or appalled.

NOTE #3: Readers are welcome to submit items for future Typo Phile columns via email. Please note that I’m not so much interested in run-of-the-mill typographic slips-of-the-keyboard, which happen to all of us, but rather in actual misuses or abuses of the English language.