Y'know, there are typos and there are TYPOS!

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
>
>  From another list, from the NY Post.
[snip]
>
> >Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 23:24:18 -0600
> >
> >http://www.nypost.com/seven/02162009/news/regionalnews/george_denied_his_due_155401.htm
> >
> >GEORGE DENIED HIS DUE / TYPO FOUND ON CITY COURT AFTER 82 YRS.
[snip]

Here's my take on the typo:

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/1727/

As I note in the column, many others have misquoted Washington in the
same way, including Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Charles Warren in
_The Supreme Court in United States History_ (1922).

http://books.google.com/books?id=ReA9AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA31


--Ben Zimmer

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