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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.

[identity profile] alan-yee.livejournal.com 2009-09-19 05:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I would watch a fish-fight, since I've never sen one before. Right now I'm imagining people throwing fish at each other.

[identity profile] alan-yee.livejournal.com 2009-09-19 05:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Er, that should be "seen". I hit Post Comment too quickly.