Booking Through Thursday
You may or may not have seen my post at Punctuality Rules Tuesday, about a book I recently bought that had the actual TITLE misspelled on the spine of the book. A glaring typographical error that really (really!) should have been caught. So, using that as a springboard, today’s question: What’s the worst typographical error you’ve ever found in (or on) a book?
Remember when I pointed out this mistake?
6 comments:
Thanks for pointing that out. You can repost that here.
:D
Hehe! That's a good one. My favorite errors are those that create unintentionally funny meanings or images in one's mind.
I can't think of specific errors in books at the moment. Perhaps it's because all available brain space has been taken up by the billboard near my house that advertises a "$4.95 all-you-can-eat Seafood Buffey."
Funny how typing a comment about errors makes one very cautious about making an error.
I can't think of any specifics, probably because they have only been annoying, not glaring like the book jacket, which gave me a hardy laugh, or the one you found not that long ago.
The church near our old house kept this one up for years:
Have you ? forgotten me
And I have relatives who like to put quotation marks around names and totally random words:
Dear "Susan,"
Today we took the cat to the "vet" to be wormed.
Numerous ones in paperbacks, obviously proof-read by spell-check programs only. Two for to or too, that sort of flub.
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