A young police constable in the 1950s phoned in a report of a traffic accident with the words "Upon my arrival, traffic was being controlled by an RAC man." When he returned to the office, he found the written report said: "Upon my arrival, traffic was being controlled by an Irish seaman."

A former Inland Revenue worker told of a letter to a taxpayer about his father's estate. The letter came back saying "I understand you have recently inherited your barber's house."

And a lawyer's secretary was perhaps a little too eager to be correct. The phrase "My client has flu" became "My client has fled".

One lady told of her father dictating a sentence saying, "We note you wish to take this matter up again." Unfortunately the secretary typed, "We note you wish to rake this matter up again."

And, in what is either a typing error or the plot of a bad sit-com, a solicitor wrote, "owing to a misunderstanding, my client has not committed adultery."

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