"Tipping is not a city in China" (1955?)

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 4/7/06, Bapopik at aol.com <Bapopik at aol.com> wrote:
> (GOOGLEBOOKS)
> ...
> _Passport Hong Kong_
> (http://books.google.com/books?ie=3DISO-8859-1&vid=3DISBN1885073313&id=3DnjN=Q_dojWaYC&pg=3DPA85&lpg=3DPA85&dq=3D"not+a+city+in+china"&sig=3DjVhdtt4--o8iYPekpGfUelcDCrE)
> by Andrew Grzeskowiak - Travel - 1955 - 96 pages
> Page 85  - A Note on Tipping Some American restaurants and cafes have clever
> little  signs by the cash register that read 'Tipping is not a city in China.

This is one of the many misdatings on Google Book Search. Copyright
for this book is 1996.


--Ben Zimmer

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