[bksvol-discuss] Re: Favorite Scanno of the week

This reminds me of something. I once knew a man whose last name was Rucker. 
He got quite a laugh once when someone with poor handwriting made the R in 
his name look like an F. I have not seen OCR mangle that particular name 
yet, but I know it could happen because I have seen it transform the R into an 
F before.

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Just have to share this one, as it really gave me a chuckle.

I'm doing a BSO of the title "Franciscan Book of Saints" because 
I noticed when I started reading it that several of the Saints' 
names are slaughtered in the copy that's in the collection.  This 
is one of those situations when spell checking will not catch the 
errors, as the errors are in proper names.

Here's my favorite scanno so far:

Saint Conrad of Piacenza is listed in the table of contents as 
"Saint Conrad of Placenta."

Hee hee hee! It's so incongruous, but there is no spelling 
checker in the world that would have caught that one.  It makes 
me start laughing every time I read it!

Funny as it is to me, it's also a good example of why I carefully 
read through books when I'm proofing them, instead of just 
trusting in a spell checker. smile.

Judy s.
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