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?
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Thanks for pointing that out. You can repost that here.
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Hehe! That's a good one. My favorite errors are those that create unintentionally funny meanings or images in one's mind.
ReplyDeleteI 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."
ReplyDeleteFunny 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.
ReplyDeleteThe church near our old house kept this one up for years:
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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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