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From warring rutabagas to human beef: the wonderful world of typos

Years ago I learned a valuable twofold editorial lesson: respect the precision of a good keyboarder, and don’t get cute in the margins. The project was an encyclopedia of Japan, and it was back in the era of editing only on paper. One morning, I sat down with the freshly typed arts entries and my [...]

Posted on: January 11 2012 | Posted by: | Comments: 9 | Categories: English in use | Tags: , , ,

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