It rarely happens, but when it does, it’s usually embarrassing, obvious, large and glaring. Yes, last week’s issue of The Peninsula Beacon had a spelling error on a front page headline. As you know, it was the lead story about underground pipe construction through pocket canyons being completed. The headline, though, read “Canyon Pipping Finishes In The Black.”
“Pipping” actually means to break through an egg, to chirp, or to defeat by a narrow margin.
Spell check, as it turns out, won’t catch something like that. And for some reason, several sets of eyes didn’t catch it either.
But we can laugh at ourselves just as easily. So in addition to several scathing phone calls from our readers, here are the more humorous emails we received (verbatim):

I had been hopping to read an article on the pipping issue and I was pleased to see it comming to me in the Beacon. It was a movving article about the work being done.
Pagging through your paper is always interesting, for I never know what I will find.
Kermeen Fristrom, Point Lo

PIPPING????
Did I miss Gladys Knight?
Dave T.