Freudian slips
Submitted by ellen on Sat, 04/26/2008 - 10:05pm
From Martha Barnette's blog, the London Guardian ran a correction (Feb. 6, 2008):
Whether the romance of the French president and Carla Bruni was very pubic only they can say. We meant to say it was very public (Sarkozy marries royally with Versailles wedding night, page 15, February 4).
It reminds me of the time a student in a math class at my high school referred to "circumcising" a circle (instead of "circumscribing").
If you like language, I recommend Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett's radio show, A Way With Words, available as a free podcast.
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