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It bothers me a lot. But unless the book is suffused with them, I don't get too hot under the collar about it. If one of my favourite authors was, in my opinion, being really ill-served by his/her editor, I might think about writing to him/her. But not much else...
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oddly enough, it bothers me more with fiction. I suppose because of the element of distraction, and removal from whatever suspension of disbelief I have achieved.
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I agree. With the proviso that most bothersome, however, are books about language, or English!
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In reply to:
Max et al.
Don't feel to bad about the diety thing.
For the Diety's sake, it wasn't me!!  
I have never come across such a consistent error as the one you mention, but it would drive me to distraction, especially after my recent experience of being hunted mercilessly for a gaffe I didn't commit. From this day forth, sic shall be my constant companion.
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Dear Everyone,
I am inconsolable about the vexation Max has so nobly endured because of my typical graphical error.
My error, everyone! I wrote Diety instead of Deity in a previous post.
I was probably thinking of that box of chocolate covered Macadamia nuts that's sitting in my "to be wrapped" pile of Christmas gifts.
Believe me, if there was a Deity for diets it would be a very popular Deity indeed.
I for one would be lighting candles daily.
Aloha to you all,
wow
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>a Deity for diets it would be a very popular
I'm not sure about a deity, but the patron saint of diets is St. Caucus.
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TEd, if I wasn’t over here and you weren’t over there I would kiss you on the lips. Since distance forbids , I will now erect a statue in your honour. I thought I was the only one who spotted these things. If I find one error, it registers, I hmmm a little and I move on, but sometimes there are so many that it seriously annoys me. You are right, WHERE are the editors? I recently ran across a word I did not know in the preface of a compendium of horror stories. I always read the story before the preface because, very often, the prefacer will give away the whole plot. The prefacer (the editor no less) said the story represented the author’s style since the writing was very elegaic. Not knowing what it meant, and not being able to glean the meaning from the surrounding sentences or the story, I did my usual; I looked it up. I found that it was A) a MISSPELLING of elegiac and B) that it barely represented to style, which was maudlin at best. It looked like the editor was trying to show off his vocabulary. What a bust.
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St Caucus is the patron saint of dieters? Could this be because in a caucus of politicians so much hot air is being expelled through the mouth that no food can be ingested?
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St. Caucus
Might I venture to guess that this is one of the hundreds of frivolous saints that our current Pope has canonized?
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>St Caucus is the patron saint of dieters?
Buzz:
Not dieters, diets. There's more than one type of diet. I must warn you that I am an inveterate punster. Nefandous, according to tsuwm.
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