In English language news, I ran across a spelling error yesterday that had been picked up verbatim from a previous book. Which book had picked that spelling error up from a different previous book. I checked four books, and the spelling error was in all of them. So at least it was consistent, but I am pretty sure there is no ship called the USS Kearsage.

That's four different copyeditors, four accuracy reviewers, four proofreaders, the author four times, and at least three editors who are not fans of maritime history.

See, I've been know to use 'supposably' and 'liberry' for fun

Me, too, Jars. Also: sammich, punkin, nakin (for napkin because that's how my little bro pronounced it when he was wee) and bikit (for biscuit, same reason as nakin).

There's a krav instructor that says "groind" for "groin." As far as I know, that error will live as long as they do, because for fear of their own, no one's going to point it out.

What chaps my ass, though, is heighth. I'd thought it a "just one guy" thing, but I've been hearing it around.

In English language news, I ran across a spelling error yesterday that had been picked up verbatim from a previous book. Which book had picked that spelling error up from a different previous book. I checked four books, and the spelling error was in all of them.

One of the fun things about Google Scholar is that you can do a search on your own stuff or some classic paper and see how the citations of said stuff change over time, as people copy previous errors and insert their own. Eventually you find out that you published a paper in 1897 in the Journal of Psychiropractic Medicine or some other field that doesn't really exist. I'm not sure if it's more like an accumulation of DNA mutations over several generations or more like that party game where a chain of people whisper a message to the next person in line, but either way it testifies to the carelessness of the science community when it comes to citations.

It might be fun to be a Psychiropractor, though.

"Heighth" drives me nuts, as does my friend who calls it a "swifter".

Instead of "supposed to" there's a dude who says, "posedta."

It might be fun to be a Psychiropractor, though.

Could you adjust my brain? I've got a kink right here that's giving me problems...

Ta.

You want your kinks out???

She wants them out in the open, so everyone can enjoy them.

God wants me for a sunbeam.