Y'know, there are typos and there are TYPOS!
Joel S. Berson
Berson at ATT.NET
Wed Feb 18 20:37:33 UTC 2009
At 2/18/2009 01:32 PM, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
>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
His source must have been the granite :-) (No, I see it's paper.)
Joel
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