“There are two typos of people in this world: those who can edit and those who can’t”*…
We all make mistakas…
- The Wicked Bible (as it’s come to be known), published in 1631 by Robert Barker and Martin Lucas in London, offers an unusually permissive version of the Seventh Commandment
And some are funnier than others…
Webster’s chemistry editor, Austin M. Patterson, sent in a slip reading “D or d, cont./density” in 1931; but it was misinterpreted as a single word– and published in the second edition of the New International Dictionary in 1934. It was not removed until 1947.
The preface of The Vocabulary of East Anglia, by Robert Forby, 1830
Further funny faux pas at “The Most Disastrous Typos In Western History.”
* Jarod Kintz
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As we relax into Labor Day, we might pause to contemplate the commemorative and celebratory occasions sprinkled through the first month of Fall…
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SEPTEMBER is . . . National Bed Check Month, Read-A-New-Book Month, Mom & Apple Pie Month (Massachusetts), Cable TV Month, Latino Heritage Month, Be Kind to Writers & Editors Month, National Mind Mapping Month, Pleasure Your Mate Month, Board & Care Recognition Month, International Gay Square Dance Month |
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1st Week |
2nd Week |
3rd Week |
Last Week |
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Self-University Week Independence Week (Brazil) National Religious Reference Books Week Aarmus Festival Week (begins 1st Sat; Denmark) |
La Merienda Week National Mind Mapping For Project Management Week Fall Hat Week National Housekeepers Week Battle of Britain Week (Week w/15th) |
Tolkein Week National Singles Week Vitupertion Week (18th-24th) National Laundry Workers Week National Adult Day Care Center Week |
Banned Books Week National Food Service Workers Week National Dog Week National Roller Skating Week National Mind Mapping For Problem Solving Week National Pickled Pepper Week (begins Last Thurs) |
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September Movable Daily Holidays |
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Holiday |
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1st Sunday |
Working Mother’s Day Pffiferdaj (Day of the Flutes; France) Giostra del Saracino (Joust of the Saracen; Italy) |
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Saturday before Labor Day |
Capital Day |
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1st Monday |
Labor Day Settler’s Day (South Africa) Buhl Day (Sharon, Pennsylvania) Great Bathtub Race (Nome, Alaska) Box Car Day (Tracy, Minnesota) |
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1st Saturday |
Indian Day Braemar Highland Gathering (Scotland) |
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1st Sunday after Labor Day |
Grandparent’s Day |
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1st Saturday after Labor Day |
Federal Lands Cleanup Day Yellow Daisy Festival (Stone Mountain Park, Georgia) |
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1st Saturday after Full Moon in September |
Indian Day (Oklahoma) |
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2nd Sunday |
National Pet Memorial Day |
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2nd Sunday (every other year) |
Bruegel Feesten (Belgium) |
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2nd Friday after Labor Day |
The Big E begins (New England’s Great State Fair; Maine) |
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3rd Sunday |
World Peace Day Pig Face Sunday (Avening, UK) |
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3rd Tuesday |
International Day of Peace (UN) Prinsjesdag (Netherlands) |
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4th Sunday |
Good Neighbor Day |
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4th Friday |
Native American Day |
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4th Saturday |
National Hunting & Fishing Day Kid’s Day (Kiwanis Club) |
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Last Sunday |
Gold Star Mother’s Day |
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Sunday before Michaelmas (29th) |
Carrot Sunday (Scotland) |
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16 days from late September ending on 1st Sunday in October |
Oktoberfest begins (Germany) |
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Sunday before October 2nd |
Tap-Up Sunday |
And all of this is not to mention such red-letter days as Eat an Extra Desert Day (September 4), Talk Like a Pirate Day (September 19), or Hug a Vegetarian Day (September 26)…
Party on!