Well, that's embarassing for a Newspaper

[Foxboy]

I think it has more to do with digital publishing technology. If they do their layouts with something like Adobe Acrobat or {a few years older} Pagemaker...

Heck, it could even be a correction of an intern's WORSE mistake...
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll