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>TEd, if I wasn’t over here and you weren’t over there I would kiss you on the lips. . . . What a bust.


Drat! I miss out once again. And I notice that I went from buss to bust!!!

All seriousness aside, bel, this has been one of my major peeves for years. And I don't hesitate to track down the authors and let them know. With the internet many of them are really quite close.

Jeff Shaara wrote a book about OUR Civil War. The Vice President in the administration prior to Lincoln's was a Southerner named Breckinridge. He went South, much to the disgust of the residents of the eponymous town here in Colorado, who changed its name to Breckenridge in response to what they considered treason. (How's THAT for a bad sentence???)

Anyway, in his novel, Shaara used the wrong spelling. I wrote him a letter and he responded very graciously with an "oops" and said there were a few other things in the book which got missed, including his saying that John Brown had been hung. I had noticed but figured the name misspelling was of more import :).





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Dear TEd,
Diet : you mean The Golden Bull, Charlie?
(insert gleeful chuckle)
Here we go!
More meanings than you can shake a schtick at.
wow


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>Nefandous, according to tsuwm.

teD, you seem to have developed a real affection for this word. if you actually do like it (and are not just taking shots ;) consider it yours -- now you don't have to credit me any more.

BTW, it was a tough call choosing between nefandous and infandous.

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There's more than one type of diet.

A saint for the Japanese legislature?


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In reply to:

There's more than one type of diet.

A saint for the Japanese legislature?


Or is he just opening a whole new can of Worms?



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This is the way I've heard it -- "To err is human, to forgive, canine."


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I, too, tend to notice typos in the books I read. Sometimes they can be very distracting. The really glaring errors seem almost an insult to the reader. But I love books -- the paper, the typeface, the heft of the fat volumes or the cuteness of the small ones, the illustrations, the footnotes -- not just for the plots or the data imparted, and I can't imagine a world without them, as some futurists predict.


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I note that you come from Iowa. I drove across it once. But more to the point, Bill Bryson comes from Des Moines ... he talks about books the same way as you do. Is there something in the soil?



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Or is he just opening a whole new can of Worms?

... as the bishop said to the actress.



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Is there something in the soil in Iowa? Generally, field corn, soybeans, and manure from hogs and cattle.


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