This book will set you back over £200/$350.
From Alun.
(And I actually mistyped the title above quite unintentionally – getting ‘is’ the wrong way round is one I do quite often, which is a bit of a problem, being a hsitorian – but it seemed apt to leave it. It’s not as though I’m charging several hundred dollars to read my un-proofread blog.)
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Sometimes Amazon will display early copies of the cover that haven’t been proof-read which get corrected in press, but that mistake does appear on the actual cover of the book.
It’s not one of mine, anyway. The worst I ever did was describe a busy performance by a 17 year old dancer as “busty”.
Perhaps the editor is extremely camp?
Wow. Somehow I feel less guilty about the frequent typos on my own blog…
Hah! Hahahahaha!
Inevitable rule of newspapers: typographical errors will always occur in the largest possible print, in the most prominent possible space. (No one ever reads a 60-point headline; they always assume someone else did).
I suspect this also applies in book publishing.
I once set an exam for 350 students which asked them to compare Mussolini with Hilter. Ooops.
My patent recipe for spotting typos is easy – print off 500 copies then distribute them. This is guaranteed to bring the giant typo cock-up to your attention, while saving fees for proof-reading.
That’s why I avoid reading my published articles. (Or one of the reasons.)
As a PS to my trouble with ‘is’, I’ve just remembered that I have slight difficulties the other way round too. But you can work out what a univeristy is, yes? Oh, and I have this strange one where if a word ends with ‘in’, I tend to add a g.
Look what got sent to me, folks: Fuji Crosstown (or not). It’s everywhere! (Thanks, Ralph.)
And now where we know where they took that extra S from…