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Sarah/Katherine ([personal profile] truepenny) wrote2009-09-19 11:05 am
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New favorite typo

"The meeting soon broke up into a series of fish-fights."
--The Piltdown Forgery, J. S. Weiner (Oxford UP 2003): p. 62, n. 23.
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[personal profile] carbonel 2009-09-19 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I recently ran into a story where there was a mention of someone breaking into "cold cmountains." Presumably there were other hills in the story that used to be mountains as well.