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The Wicked Bible The Judas Bible in St. Mary's Church, Totnes, Devon, UK. The Wicked Bible omits the word "not" in the commandment, "thou shalt not commit adultery".. The Judas Bible is a copy of the second folio edition of the authorized version, printed by Robert Barker, printer to James VI and I, in 1613, and given to the church for the use of the Mayor of Totnes.
For example, misspell is often misspelled as mispell. The etymology of the word misspell is the affix "mis-" plus the root "spell", their bound morpheme has two consecutive ss, one of which is often erroneously omitted. The reverse phenomenon, in which a copyist inadvertently repeats a portion of text, is known as dittography.
Skeat continued with a more drastic example: [2] A similar instance occurs in a misprint of a passage of one of Walter Scott 's novels, but here there is the further amusing circumstance that the etymology of the false word was settled to the satisfaction of some of the readers.
Though widely exposed to readers and scholars, the texts of William Shakespeare's plays yield some of the most famous literary cruxes. Some have been resolved fairly well
For example, Problem 94 challenges the reader to trace the origin of the word FEAMYNG, a purported collective noun for ferrets. Borgmann's solution, which spans four pages, shows the term to be a ghost word ; it was the result of a centuries-long chain of typographical errors (from BUSYNESS to BESYNESS to FESYNES to FESNYNG to FEAMYNG ...
Stephen J. Dubner described learning of the existence of Muphry's law in the "Freakonomics" section of The New York Times in July 2008. He had accused The Economist of a typo in referring to Cornish pasties being on sale in Mexico, assuming that "pastries" had been intended and being familiar only with the word "pasties" with the meaning of nipple coverings.
lapse, slip, error; involuntary mistake made while writing or speaking: lapsus calami: inadvertent typographical error, slip of the pen lapsus linguae: inadvertent speech error, slip of the tongue lapsus memoriae: slip of memory: source of the term memory lapse: latius est impunitum relinqui facinus nocentis (quam innocentem damnari)
Lolita was published in September 1955, as a pair of green paperbacks "swarming with typographical errors". [42] Although the first printing of 5,000 copies sold out, there were no substantial reviews. [43] Eventually, at the very end of 1955, Graham Greene, in the London Sunday Times, called it one of the three best books of 1955. [44]