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» Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Typo Redux
I guess book publishers are totally relying on spellcheckers now—either that, or their proofreaders have limited vocabularies. I just finished reading a mystery novel which featured an elderly man. He was described as having "a waddled neck." Egad. I can just see it walking like a duck! The word is "wattled," guys, having a wrinkled neck like a turkey. Later in the book that other spelling mistake turned up again—our heroine is so drenched with water that it's like "Niagra." Geography class, folks. Elementary school. NiagAra Falls. ("Slowly I turn...") Yeesh. Now if it were "sesquipedalism," I might understand... Labels: books ----------------------------------------------------------------
. . . . . noted and logged by Linda at 9:34:00 PM 
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