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Just my typo : from "sinning with the choir" to "the Untied States" / compiled by Drummond Moir.

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New York : Three Rivers Press, c2014.

9780385346603 (pbk.) :

0385346603 (pbk.)

viii, 181 p. : ill. ; 21 cm

First United States Edition.

To be or to be: Typos in literature -- The fourth mistake: Typos in the media -- The word stage: Typos of historical & political significance -- The Lingua Franca: Typos abroad -- Food for thought: Gastronomic typos -- Crime and punishment: Legal typos -- The cost of a comma: The most expensive typos -- Autocorrect dystopia: The future of the typo -- Immaculate contraption: Kids' typos -- Misprints of Biblical proportions: Holy typos -- The best love in the whore world: Typos of a romantic persuasion -- Life and death: When typos kill -- Readers' favorites -- What did we miss?

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.

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