typos

[sagehen]

on 2/14/08 11:59 AM, Arnold M. Zwicky at zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU wrote:

> there's a lot of indeterminacy in analyzing typos.  i'm currently
> working on a Language Log piece with a section on the entertaining
> error "broccoli rabbi" for "broccoli rabe", in a Gordon Biersch menu
> description.  i have five alternative analyses.
>
Perhaps the other variant, "raab,"  with its double a's could be what trips
the "rabbi" slip.
AM

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