A Steroid Hit the Earth: A Celebration of Misprints, Typos and Other Howlers

By Martin Toseland

Book Overview

"A Steroid Hit the Earth" is a catalogue of errors, omissions, mistakes, and other disasters, ranging from the straight typo or the ambiguous statement to the downright bizarre. Each demonstrates a sub-editor or proofreader taking their eye off the ball, preserving the humble misprint as a perpetual source of "schadenfreude." From the holy typo of 1631, when Barker and Lucas' "Wicked Bible" exhorted people to commit adultery by omitting a crucial "not" from the seventh commandment, "A Steroid Hit the Earth" reaches back in time to the days before modern printing and our own spell-check obsessed age. It is a joyous and irreverent paean to gaffes of all sorts that have caused confusion, consternation, and outright offence among readers. It will be proof-read six times before publication.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 190603270X
• ISBN13: 9781906032708
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Portico
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 1.0" x 5.0"