Drummond Moir

I received this book from a Goodreads Firstreads giveaway. Honestly I'm not sure I would spend money on this. It might be worthwhile checking out from a library, or picking up used, but I wouldn't pay full price for this.

The author compiled these typos from many sources, many of them from the UK, and several of them very old. Some have made the rounds before, and that is acknowledged in the beginning if you read the copyright information.

As others have pointed out I found the format a bit off-putting. The "interludes" and "favorite typos" made things stand out I guess, but I wasn't sure what the point of that was. I guess the author or editor was trying to liven things up a bit instead of just having a book that would be basically a list of all of these misprints.

The book itself is an easy light read, and enjoyable in a funny way. Easy to get through it in just a few hours, much like a beach read or something similar.

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Thanks to GoodReads First Reads for a copy of Just My Typo.

Just My Typo is a great collection of hilarious typos. There is a focus: single-letter/space/punctuation typos. And there is an organization: legal typos, religious typos, medical typos, etc. Of course, these can be organized any which way, and one way would appeal more to some than other, but Moir (or should I call him DrommonG Moir?) does a good job of compiling and organizing for my taste. I laughed a lot while reading the book, which was not ideal in the subway, but I really cannot complain. I noticed a few things: a) I laugh more when a bad thing is misspelled so it is harmless (e.g., "Armstrong Used Rugs!" Did he, now? Rugs! You don't say!); b) by far the most frequent misspelling quoted in the book is public --> pubic; c) children are confused about the spelling of cute, and most importantly, think that it is spelled just like cunt (who is teaching children to write that?! tsk tsk tsk...); and d) also common is a confusion between adulthood and adultery (same diff!).

As a molecular biologist and a technical writer, one of my favorite typos quoted in the book has to be the one where a student goes on and on about gnomes (which got me thinking about the genomes of gnomes, which, I assure you, is not easy thinking). This also makes me want to point out that to get the most out of the typos, one does have to know a bit (for example, I got the gnomes-->genomes typo right away, whereas most people might not have, since they might not know what a genome is [they should, of course, but that's a different book.]) So in a way, Just My Typo is also a subtle education about many facets of life.

Recommended for those who enjoy reading about language and grammar, and those who are learning English.… (meer)

Just My Typo: From "Sinning with the Choir" to "the Untied States" is an eclectic collection of typographical errors found and collected by the editor Drummond Moir. Just My Typo is just my type of book. It covers typos in a variety of arenas ranging from romance to religion, and old texts to modern day autocorrections. Many errors quoted had me laughing out loud.

Read my complete review at: rel="nofollow" target="_top">http://www.memoriesfrombooks.com/2014/08/just-my-typo-from-sinning-with-choir-to...

*** Reviewed based on a publisher’s galley received through Edelweiss ***… (meer)