Misreading postings
☛ 5/7/12: Zeugmatic McDonald’s, comment by Julian Lander:
JL read “ear-catching” as “ear catchup”
☛ 1/20/12: Creative misreading:
“in Cairo between Bill Burns” read as “in Carol Burnett”
☛ 3/28/13: Misreading:
people reading “abutilon” as “ablution”
☛ 3/29/13: More misreading:
from booklet Mistakes: “Kin of Slain Nuns” read as “Kin of Slain Nuts”, then as “King of Slain Nuns”; “mini pork sandwiches” read as “mint pork sandwiches”
☛ 6/3/14: Briefly noted: misreading a head:
“turn New Yorkers into composters” read as “into composers”
☛ 9/13/14: Thursday’s misreading:
“Scots Spur Separatists” read as “Scots Spurn Separatists”
☛ 6/23/15: Briefly: A misreading:
“Iran Deal” read as “Iron Dean”
☛ 7/2/15: Briefly: A catamitic misreading:
“Calamities” read as “Catamites”
☛ 1/25/16: Six months of misreadings:
6 examples
☛ 8/29/16: Briefly: A chain of misreadings:
“Maroons” read as “Monsoons”, then “Maricons”
☛ 3/24/18: A hopeful misreading:
“Hawk” read as “Hawke”
☛ 5/24/18: Today’s misreading: life behind piano bars:
“Prism” read as “Prison”
☛ 2/26/19: Annal of misreadings: the Cthulhu caper:
“Chillin Towel” read as “Cthulhu Towers”
☛ 3/3/19: The didactyl anteater, Anteater D, aka The Antedater:
“antedater” read as “anteater”
☛ 4/25/19: Boyton penguin days:
in Melinda Shore comment: “World Penguin Day” read as “Word Penguin Day”
☛ 5/15/19: News for penguins: the misread petrel:
“petrel” read as “pretzel”
☛ 6/4/19: Annals of misreading: CEAUSESCU:
the Romanian name misread as CAUCASUS and as CADUCEUS