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I lzave availed myself of t/ze pub lislted communications of my friends Professors Hales and Skeat and Dr. Murray on Literary Blunders, and my best t/tanks are also due to several friends wko liave lzelped me wit/c some curious instances, and I would speci ally mention Sir George Birdwood, jwr. Edward Clodd.
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Delight in other people's errors never dates, and this little book from 1893 is a fount of human folly that remains a joy to read. Citing examples from historians, misguided schoolboys and everyday conversation, the librarian and scholar Henry Benjamin Wheatley (1838–1917) looks at comic misprints and linguistic misunderstandings.
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