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Moir, D: Just My Typo: From Sinning with the Choir to the La

Autor Drummond Moir
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 iun 2013
A hilarious collection of typograhical errors, slips of the pen and embarrassing misprints. This is an ideal gift for worldlovers and pedants. 'Delightful... as an 1864 edition of the Bible suggested, 'Rejoice and be exceedingly clad'!' "TLS"
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ISBN-13: 9781444759990
ISBN-10: 144475999X
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 136 x 197 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Editura: Hodder & Stoughton

Notă biografică

Drummond Moir grew up in Edinburgh and studied at St Anne's College, Oxford and Daiichi Keizai University in Fukuoka, Japan. He has worked in publishing since 2006 and is currently Editorial Director at Sceptre.

Recenzii

Picked as one of the Guardian Books of the Year. 'You could put a gentle reminder in your card that "gift" has been used as a verb since the 16th century, and gift a book about language'. -- Guardian A Guardian Best Stocking-Filler Book 2012. -- . Delightful... as an 1864 edition of the Bible suggested, "Rejoice and be exceedingly clad!" -- TLS 'Roundly entertaining... the pedant's stocking filler for 2012'. -- Bookseller magazine humour picks Hilarious! Don't read it through in one sitting, tempting as it might be to see what's over the page. You do reach a stage where it's difficult for onlookers to establish if you're convulsed with laughter or in need of medical assistance. -- Bookbag King of the stocking filler books this Christmas... Essentially it's the best most fun chunks of the internet that you're thrilled to see when you're hungover. -- Alex Heminglsey, 60SecondReview Hard to suppress the snorts of laughter when reading this jolly collection of spelling mistakes, sub-editing disasters and misprints. -- The Lady