corrections

[Victor Steinbok]

Both Google (search) and Mozilla (Firefox 8.0) put up messages that the
site has been deemed unsafe and refused to go to it unless I signed away
the house, the car and the children. But it's all unnecessary, as the
entire archive has been ported to the Poynter version of the blog
(although some links fail to work). so all the content is there--the
only question is how to reference it.

     VS-)

On 12/30/2011 8:56 AM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 1:57 AM, Victor Steinbok<aardvark66 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> I have stumbled on a newspaper post on corrections that ends up
>> referring to an entire blog dedicated to newspaper corrections. Some are
>> of general interest, a couple are of specific interest here. I won't
>> presume which is which and will mention things in a random stream of
>> errors ;-)
>>
>> http://goo.gl/qxE5Q
>>
>> This is the post from San Ramon Express News/Danville Express. The post
>> links to regrettheerror.com, which Google and Mozilla promptly block as
>> a malicious attack source. Whatever the reason for this label, I could
>> not get to the content.
> [...]
>
> Don't know why Google&  Mozilla would be blocking regrettheerror.com,
> but I've often relied on the site in my hunt for entertaining
> instances of the Cupertino effect and other search-and-replace
> miscorrections:
>
> http://blog.oup.com/2007/11/spellchecker/
> http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005361.html
>
> --bgz

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