RE: Typo in the Chicago Manual

Subject: RE: Typo in the Chicago Manual
From: "Robert Plamondon" <robert -at- plamondon -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 06:59:19 -0700


>Just out of curiosity, does anyone have a copy of the 14th Chicago
>Manual? I subscribed to an indexing list that was posted here earlier in
>the week, and apparently there are copies of the 14th edition with a
>typo.

Are you surprised that there's a typo, or that someone read the book
carefully enough to find it?

Personally, I'm surprised that anyone thought it interesting enough to
report it. One should take it as a matter of course that a book as large as
the Manual of Style contains errors.

-- Robert
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