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Just came across this typo in our catalog -- acreen for screen No hits in OhioLink Allison ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Allison Howard, MLIS Catalog Librarian Shimberg...
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Aug 1, 2005
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From Wendee, TG and others Entry -- Hits in OhioLINK -- MainList Section Abandonded-- 0008 -- C Accompn*-- 0039 -- B Achive*-- 0024 -- B Acommp*-- 0003 -- D ...
Tina Gunther
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Aug 1, 2005
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<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8788816//id/8788330/>VOTE: Does Palmeiro deserve to be in Hall o Fame? This one, from MSNBC/NBC Sports, cracked me up! Phalbe...
Phalbe Henriksen
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Aug 1, 2005
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Libtypos-L@yahoogroups.com on Monday, August 01, 2005 at 2:53 PM -0800 ... The link didn't work for me. It came up as an error. However, a Google search...
Tina Gunther
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Aug 1, 2005
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Looks like MSNBC caught it: http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=Palmeiro+deserve+hall+o+fame+site%3Amsnbc.msn.com&FORM=QBRE Terry Terry Ballard, Automation...
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Aug 1, 2005
10:58 pm
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Typo - Hits in OhioLINK gazeteer - 71 (gazeteer* - 77) infecition - 1 liasion - 7 prosposed - 5 scholary - 15 "gazeteer" is correctly spelled (by some people!)...
wendeeeyler
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Aug 2, 2005
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2718
... I'm a bit leery about putting this on the MainList because 74 of the 77 hits are in title fields or contents notes. The percentage of "gazzetteer" hits in...
Tina Gunther
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Aug 2, 2005
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2719
'K. Phalbe...
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Terry Ballard, Automation Librarian Quinnipiac University, Bernhard Library 275 Mt. Carmel Avenue Hamden, CT, 06518 203-582-8945 terry.ballard@... ...
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Aug 2, 2005
12:40 pm
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... "Google Imaqes"? (0 hits in OhioLINK for "Imaqe*") My brain hasn't kicked into gear yet this morning. Why would a typo make the picture #1 of 10,800? BTW ...
Tina Gunther
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Aug 2, 2005
5:30 pm
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There were 10,800 people who spelled it wrong, but somehow they liked my picture the best. Spelled correctly, you get a clean half million hits in Google...
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Aug 2, 2005
5:35 pm
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Isn't "graffiti" plural as well as singular? Billie ... Here's a trivia question: "Graffiti" is plural. What is the singular form? Tina Gunther...
Billie Hackney
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Aug 2, 2005
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well, in Italian the singular is Graffito. When an o-ending word becomes plural, it mutates to an i-ending word. E.g.: spaghetto, spaghetti Daniel ... ...
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Aug 2, 2005
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From Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 2nd ed. (2001): graffiti (n.) 1. pl. of graffito. Definitions 2 and 3, which are both used with a plural...
Dustin Larmore
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Aug 2, 2005
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... "Graffiti is the pl. of graffito" and "Graffito ... plural of graffiti" ??? Tina...
Tina Gunther
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Aug 2, 2005
11:26 pm
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Oops! Thanks Tina! The second definition of graffito is "2. a single example of graffiti."...
Dustin Larmore
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Aug 3, 2005
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From Wendee, Tina, et al. Entry -- Hits in OhioLINK -- MainList Section Adolo* -- 0033 -- B Aproach* -- 0019 -- B Argri* -- 0006 -- D Aslo -- 0007 -- D ...
Tina Gunther
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Aug 5, 2005
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Accommm* -- 0002 -- D Accredia* -- 0008 -- C Accredid* -- 0002 -- D Afft* -- 0003 -- D Agreee* -- 0014 -- C Auspicies -- 0010 -- C Calll* -- 0003 -- D Falll*...
Tina Gunther
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Aug 9, 2005
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Hi, Perhaps Phalbe would like to add this to her More Typographical Errors list ... recource/resource (In OhioLINK, 2 records had "electronic recource" rather ...
wendeeeyler
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Aug 11, 2005
10:58 pm
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Why put it on the MoreList? "Recource*" is not a valid English word. It does show up in OneLook as French, but all of the hits in OhioLINK were typos for...
Tina Gunther
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Aug 11, 2005
11:28 pm
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I just tried to pull together a list of "we" on LibTypos, and send this message to just "those of us." It turned out to be impossible -- I was going to copy...
Phalbe Henriksen
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Aug 12, 2005
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... I don't get the "we" and "'you' (us)" part of your message, but the rendering looks pretty nice. Since we moved into our new building just a few years ago,...
Tina Gunther
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Aug 12, 2005
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2734
Whoops! Thanks, Tina, you are correct. Wendee ... word. It ... were...
wendeeeyler
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Aug 12, 2005
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typo - OhioLINK anlytic* - 3 disipline - 7 prgnancy - 1 prgrams - 18 prgress - 1 Wendee...
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Aug 12, 2005
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Here is another recently-confirmed batch of MainList entries from Wendee, Tina, and others Entry -- Hit count in OhioLINK -- MainList Section Annn* -- 0013 --...
Tina Gunther
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Aug 12, 2005
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Here is another recently-confirmed batch of MainList entries from Wendee, Tina, and others Entry -- Hit count in OhioLINK -- MainList Section Anlyt* -- 0004 --...
Tina Gunther
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Aug 15, 2005
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typo - OhioLINK deterence - 9 restrospective - 13 (1 is [sic]) restrospect* - 14 (1 is [sic]) Issac (for Isaac Hayes) - 1 I groaned when I saw all the "Issac"...
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Aug 15, 2005
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2739
Angecy -- OhioLink -- 1 Phalbe...
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Aug 15, 2005
7:09 pm
2740
I think the likely answer to the Issac question is 46 - that's what I got in OHIOLINK when I specified Isaac and Issac in a search. Terry Ballard, Automation...
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Aug 15, 2005
7:22 pm
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typo - OhioLINK hits acpects - 6 apects - 20 apsects - 31 asects - 3 asspects - 4 aspcts - 1 aspecets - 1 aspecsts - 1 aspetcs - 2 aspets - 3 espects - 4 ...
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