Just My Typo
From "Sinning with the Choir" to "the Untied States"
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- $10.99
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Publisher Description
A charming collection of typographical errors, slips of the pen, and embarrassing misprints, Just My Typo celebrates the awful and the sublime mistakes that riddle our feeble human attempts at communication.
It's time to accept the truth: typos are everywhere. Legal documents are riddled with errors, headlines of respectable publications are rife with misspellings, and even your favorite books need a few reprints to get everything right. Isn't it time we learned to laugh at our mistakes instead of despairing? Just My Typo is an irresistible collection of the most humorous, mistakenly poignant, and downright awful typos in texts, from the Bible to insurance advertisements to political slogans.
Within these pages, you’ll travel back in time with great figures from history, such as Sir Francis Drake (who circumcised the world in a small ship) and Rambo (the famous French poet). You’ll also find valuable moral instruction (“Blessed are the meek, for they shall irrigate the earth.”), and meet politicians who exploit disasters to boost their pubic profiles. Structured according to categories (such as, “To Be or To Be: Typos in Literature”), you’ll easily find either a quick laugh or a relaxing—and cringe-inducing—read. A few more of the gems within:
· “The Queen pissed graciously over the Menai Bridge.”
· “I am certain of one thing. Whatever may come between us—and wherever he may be on earth—Arthur will always remember that I love ham.” (The Parting, Millicent Hemming)
· “Love is just a passing fanny.”
Editors, proofreaders, and writers everywhere pull their hair out trying to eliminate mistakes, to no avail. Celebrating the humanity of our errors and the timelessness of mistakes, Just My Typo is essential reading for anyone who values the power and peril of the written word.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This amusing collection of typos, organized by category, shows what can happen when "a single letter, punctuation mark, or space is in the wrong place at the wrong time." Moir, editorial director of U.K. literary imprint Sceptre, begins with errors in literature, such as Richard Dawkins referring to CERN's particle accelerator as "The Large Hardon Collider." He also remarks on the numerous typos in James Joyce's Ulysses, most of which, due to the novel's challenging mix of literary styles, "went largely unnoticed forty years after publication." Typos from the news media include mistakes such as the New York Times referring to Pakistan's capital as "Islambad," and a London Times advertisement seeking a "young person, age about 81 or 19." Moir demonstrates the importance of punctuation, as when a cotton-broker received, in answer to whether he should make any purchases, this telegraph: "No price too high." This breezy read proves the saying, "every time you make a typo, the errorists win." B&w photos throughout.
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