“TOWNSVILLE businesses are facing exuberant new licensing fees which will affect 514 businesses and see some slugged more than $10,000 a year. ”
EXUBERANT: (adj)
Synonyms: enthusiastic, excited, energetic, high-spirited, cheerful, lively, boisterous, animated, vigorous, buoyant, vivacious
Interesting use of the word…
Spellcheck is not always your friend.
Peppermint Patcher 
Clearly they meant exorbant.
More likely they meant exorbitant = excessive; extravagant; immoderate.
We get some beauts in our papers too. I can reluctantly excuse such errors in almost anyone else but myself.
DH can’t excuse anyone, cause he doesn’t make any ( yeah right )As my eye sight seems to deteriorate I make more typos. I use spell checker BUT never trust it’s judgemnet.
“Season’s Greetings,” from NZ.
I don’t know, those license fees seem boisterous and animated to me. 🙂
Oh, dear.
I’ve been catching myself in a lot of similar errors lately. Complement/compliment, mantel/mantle and so forth.
What a charming thought: “exuberant licensing fees…” The imagination drifts into little detours…
I was joking about ‘exorbant’.
Now I’m embrassed.
And THAT was a joke, too. Sheesh.
Top marks to the Bully, yet again…
Oh gawd. I see Melinda hasn’t commented yet.
She gonna have a meltdown!
Come to think of it, maybe she did already have a meltdown.
Maybe that’s why she hasn’t yet commented!
I love spell check but sometimes it does not work the way you want it to. 🙂
Here I am! Melt-down at the fingertips. EXUBERANT?! ACK! ACK! ACK! Did this reporter got to journalism school? Does he or she own a dictionary? Heard of a thesaurus? Was the copy editor asleep on the job? Do copy editors exist anymore? Exuberant…. snort!
Obviously I have no copy editor. That would be “go to” not “got to”. Oops.
Ha ha. I love that Miss Perfect Grammar Spellcheck teacher Melinda had to correct something she typed incorrectly!
Kind of makes her look…well…human, doesn’t it?
Ooh. I must admit mistakes like that infuriate me. But then maybe I make some too…