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Originally posted by Gatofeo:
...Trip-Wire Words include:
Public becomes pubic as in, "The mayor will give a pubic address ..."
Count becomes a very nasty word with the omission of one letter. The daily I worked on made this mistake one day -- one very ugly word repeated in 40,000 issues, distributed over a wide region!
In the 1880s it was reported in a London newspaper that the "Queen passed over the bridge."
Alas, one letter got replaced and the Queen ended up doing a bodily function over the bridge!
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Good ones!
An editor I worked with had a favorite from USNA in Annapolis the graduation booklet was printed."United States Navel Academy."