Typesetter's nightmare

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 6:21 PM, neil <neil at typog.co.uk> wrote:
>
> You've probably seen this before; but if not...
>
> THE TYPESETTER¹S
> KNIGHT MAYOR
>
> I have a spelling chequer
> It came with my pea see
> It plainly marques for my revue
> Miss steaks eye cannot sea.
[snip]

Variations date back to at least 1992...

http://news.google.com/archivesearch?as_epq=four+my+revue&as_hdate=1992

More on "miss steaks" here...

http://blog.oup.com/2007/11/along/


--Ben Zimmer

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