OT: "officially" misnumbered centuries

[Joel S. Berson]

At 1/18/2010 08:56 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>Are you testing my prescriptivist faith?
>
>I'll sleep on it.

The Harvard on-line catalog offers a form for supplying Comments, one
of which is "I know of an error in a HOLLIS record".  As a
prescriptivist, I have provided many, so many that I once asked the
human responder whether I had become notorious.  No, she said, and
they welcomed corrections.  But perhaps she was merely being polite.

YLMD.

Joel


>JL
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>On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Gonna set 'em to rights?
> > m a m
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> > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com
> > >wrote:
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> > > Our campus library now subscribes to Gale/Cengage's _17th-18th Century
> > > Burney Collection of Newspapers_
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> > > The catalogue erroneously describes the collection as running from
> > > "1700-1899."
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