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Complete tangent but I was struck by the typo in this sentence > Millions of links around the web - including many on the Grauniad itself - are all now broken.
by alwaysbeconsing 4y ago
Complete tangent but I was struck by the typo in this sentence
> Millions of links around the web - including many on the Grauniad itself - are all now broken.
Which made very large positional changes but to just the right combination letters to produce another plausible-sounding name out of "Guardian".
- leephillips 4y agoIt’s a common joke: https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/grauniad-the https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/graun... Something to do with frequent typos in the paper, I think.
- anonymouskimmer 4y agoIt's not a typo. https://wordhistories.net/2017/06/05/origin-of-grauniad/ https://wordhistories.net/2017/06/05/origin-of-grauniad/
- alwaysbeconsing 4y agoFascinating, thanks!