When he said, “Come in,” Beckett wrote that down as part of the manuscript. Joyce answered the door and invited the person in. When they were working on Finnegan’s Wake, someone came to the door and knocked. The editor inserted the new word-Dord-in the dictionary between “dorcopsis” and doré.” Dord was given the meaning of “density” and left in the dictionary for years before being removed.ġ930-James Joyce was in the habit of dictating his novels, at least in part, to his friend and fellow author, Samuel Beckett.
In 1934, an editor misread a note about using D or d as an abbreviation for density. Spinach is good for you, but not that good.ġ934- Webster’s New International Dictionary. Even today, there is the belief that spinach is very high in iron. And, Popeye helped spread that falsehood. The mistake was not caught until 1939 and by then the myth about spinach’s health benefit had spread far and wide. The number 3.5 grams suddenly became 35 grams, an extraordinary amount of iron. He misplaced the decimal point in the amount of iron in spinach. Remember the Popeye cartoons and Popeye eating spinach and getting very strong due to all the iron in the vegetable? It turns out that a chemist in 1870 made a little typo. Imogen became a very popular name and most people never realized that wasn’t the original name in the play.ġ870-We all know how healthy spinach is supposed to be. This is a pretty name, but when the pages appeared in print, the font chosen made the two nn’s hard to distinguish. When Shakespeare wrote his play, Cymbeline, he named his character Innogen. Sometimes, the typo is not the fault of the author.
I thought it would be fun to look at some famous typos throughout history. No matter how hard you try to find them, they sneak into your text and get missed.
As an author, I understand how typos slip through edits into a book or an article.
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