[ebooktalk] Re: amusing mistakes
- From: "Elaine Harris \(Rivendell\)" <elaineharris@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 20:10:26 +1100
Oh, I love "The Wizard of ounces".
I wonder if Tartt is an assumed name. The extra T added for effect or to
ward of coarse comments.
I used to refer to someone using the letter M twice, just as you would say
A.A., but write it without the fullstops. The computer would to call him
millimetres.
The only name I can come up with using so many repeated letter is
Woolloomooloo in Sydney. Pretty sure that is how it is spelt. Only the last
syllable is pronounced like a double O, to rhyme with moo.
Elaine
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Sent: Friday, 25 October 2013 6:58 PM
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Subject: [ebooktalk] amusing mistakes
Hi
I think we have touched on this before when we talked about braille signs,
but, I was amused yesterday when my Victor Stream wrongly translated a line
from the new Donna Tartt book where she apparently referred to
"the wizard of ounces".
I have also been pondering on the name Donna Tartt. I wonder how many names
of five letters have three letter ts in them? I did think of one other name
with a much repeated letter, and that is yoko Ono.
Can anyone think of any others, or am I just a very sad person?
David
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