[ebooktalk] Re: amusing mistakes
- From: "Shell" <shell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 18:08:23 +0100
Very funny, When my book sense has a full stop after the girls name Jan or the
word Sat, it always says January and Saturday, which makes me smile.
Shell.
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From: "Ian Macrae" <ian.macrae1@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2013 11:10 AM
To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: amusing mistakes
> some of you may remember that when I read Sisterland earlier in the year my
> enjoyment was only partly hampered by the insistence of the voice on my
> Plextalk player referring to the Narrator's sister, who's name was Vi as six,
> reading the letters as roman numerals. Another one I've had lately was in a
> book on my iPhone Kindle app where much of the action was set in fort
> Lauderdale, Florida. The place name was written as F t Lauderdale causing
> Daniel to call it Featuring §. Neither of these, however, surpasses the
> Wizard of Ounces.
> On 25 Oct 2013, at 10:10, Elaine Harris (Rivendell) wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ebooktalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ebooktalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>> On Behalf Of David Russelll
>> Sent: Friday, 25 October 2013 6:58 PM
>> To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> 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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