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And even if you are familiar with Private Eye you might not get the joke that the Guardian was in the past notorious for tpyos and misprinst.
by josephlord 13y ago
And even if you are familiar with Private Eye you might not get the joke that the Guardian was in the past notorious for tpyos and misprinst.
- syncsynchalt 13y agoI had always heard an interesting story about that — since the newspaper was printed in Manchester, it was the first press runs that had to be sent to far-off London. Then the later runs (with misspellings often fixed) were sent to the closer cities. On the other hand, newspapers based in London would send their typo-ridden newspapers to far-off locales first, and the corrected editions would stay in London. Since the tastemakers were in London this resulted in a situation where the newspaper becomes notorious for being ridden with errors. No idea if there's any truth to it, the wikip page presents a different story that sounds like problems with collaboration tools (eg. TTY) used between the two cities.