Ebook Just My Typo From "Sinning with the Choir" to "the Untied States" Drummond Moir Books
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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.
Ebook Just My Typo From "Sinning with the Choir" to "the Untied States" Drummond Moir Books
"If you enjoy accidentally mangled English, this is yet another book for you. It made me LOL many times."
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Just My Typo From "Sinning with the Choir" to "the Untied States" Drummond Moir Books Reviews :
Just My Typo From "Sinning with the Choir" to "the Untied States" Drummond Moir Books Reviews
- So THIS is the reason that Azerbaijan appeared in my Harry Potter text message last night.
A very funny book for all of us who struggle with English on the self-correcting (HAH) keyboard and phone. - Adorable book though be forewarned it is written by someone British and much of the humor comes from errors and typos in phrases and words that are likely to be more familiar to people in the UK than they might be to a US reader...but I actually laughed out loud several times reading this...my mom was a proofreader at a newspaper for 30 years and she got a big kick out of this charming book.
- I am enjoying this book tremendously.
- If you enjoy accidentally mangled English, this is yet another book for you. It made me LOL many times.
- Thanks
- Lots of fun to read!
- As someone who plans to have the phrase "he was plagued by typos" on his tombstone, I loved this book.
- Howling laughter!
