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[Laurence Horn]

At 11:24 AM -0400 7/8/07, Grant Barrett wrote:
>The most ironic thing about the column, which is about getting basics
>like names right, is that the Jaimie Epstein's name is misspelled in
>the byline and on the page header as "Jaimie Esptein." It's right in
>the bio line, however.

It's correct in the printed version, p. 18 of today's NYTM.  The
online transposer (however that works) must have been overly focused
on getting the "Jaimie" right, since she writes in the column about
her friends misplacing one of her "i"s or the other.

LH

>
>Double your irony intake: she says she is "a sometime editor of this
>column."
>
>http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/08/magazine/08wwln-guest-t.html
>
>Grant Barrett
>Double-Tongued Dictionary
>http://www.doubletongued.org/
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