While in college, I wrote a paper on the Ordovician-Silurian boundry. Yup, on the title page and about fifty other times throughout the paper I misspelled the word boundary. At the time there was no spell check, just a good old fashioned Selectric typewriter. After the first ten or so red slashes through the offending errors, the instructor gave up on correcting my error. I don’t think I made an A on that one.
I remember reading a story, probably apocryphal, of a publisher who pridefully claimed that he had produced a Christian Bible without any errors. But when the reader opened to the first page at John 1:1 it read, “In the big inning…”
I like your Bible story better though.
PS: I’m hoping that the misspelling of “Everywhere” (Evrywhere?) was intentional!
While in college, I wrote a paper on the Ordovician-Silurian boundry. Yup, on the title page and about fifty other times throughout the paper I misspelled the word boundary. At the time there was no spell check, just a good old fashioned Selectric typewriter. After the first ten or so red slashes through the offending errors, the instructor gave up on correcting my error. I don’t think I made an A on that one.
I impressed with the title even with the misspelling. I’ve never heard of those countries. Or maybe they aren’t even countries.
When I was a newspaper reporter, it was all too common to find that "public" appeared as "pubic."
Oh that is a good one.
Boy, whoever wrote that review has some kind of way with words!
And you can read more of his wonderful words at Mark MacGougan delightfully funny Substack!
I remember reading a story, probably apocryphal, of a publisher who pridefully claimed that he had produced a Christian Bible without any errors. But when the reader opened to the first page at John 1:1 it read, “In the big inning…”
I like your Bible story better though.
PS: I’m hoping that the misspelling of “Everywhere” (Evrywhere?) was intentional!
Can you imagine if it wasn't intentional? Also, I think the big inning could work. You know how people like sports analogies.
A Bible that isn’t targeting Red Sox fans 😞
“Errors, errors evrywhere” sounds like the Sox though
Your comment made me laugh out loud.