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In reply to the discussion: How Much Are You Bothered by Spelling, Grammar, Capitalization, and Punctuation Errors [View all]Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)It's John Julius Norwich's A Short History of Byzantium. Apparently, the copy editor used a computerized spell checker, and picked the first suggestion whenever it came across a misspelt word. All the words are spelt correctly, but sometimes it's the wrong word. For example, in a discussion of a sixth-century heresy called "monothelitism," the word "monotheism" is used once. If I were Lord Norwich, I would be extremely annoyed.
I also remember an historical novel I once read, in which the word "parameter" is used instead of "perimeter."
The worst misspelling I know of is a woman who has a tattoo on her arm of 1 Corinthians 13:13 -- "Faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love" -- with "Corinthians" misspelt.
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