Best typo seen today

[dianeduane]

I roared. Someone email this to JKR, quick...

The seventh and last installment of boy wizard Harry Potter and his antics at Hogwarts, sinisterly titled Harry Potter and the Deathly Gallows...

Whoopsie!  (snicker)

Comments

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

Much better title. "Hang the little slug!" as Richard III might have said...

[navigatorsghost.livejournal.com]

*lol*

Speaking of writerly errors, seen this?

http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/authors/fantasy_writer_accidentally_torches_his_office_52144.asp

There goes a lot of irreplaceable material, I sadly suspect...

[jaebird.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, I saw that earlier today, but as much as I feel bad for him.. I can't help but laugh.
I had a dream earlier tonight, that I wrote him a letter telling him "I'm sorry for your loss, I hope you the best in the days to come.
P.S Next time wear your nightshirt with little red fire engines on it"

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Talking of sinister, one of the places local to us is named Caxton Gibbet. (Google Maps reference.)

Yes, the gibbet is still there (or was last time I checked, anyway), by the side of the road. It's a little odd to be eating in the fine Chinese Restaurant close by and to be gazing at it over one's meal.

It's a crossroads. And what is now the minor road is what used to be the Great North Road, alias Ermine Street, the Roman road down which Constantine the Great came to London after his acclamation in York. So when the gibbet went up, it was a major crossroads.

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

Brilliant! It actually makes more sense than the REAL title!

[madfilkentist]

There was some discussion on my LJ a while back of what the title means. The best guess that I saw was that it alludes to the Hallows of Britain, so the "deathly hallows" may be the Horcruxes or perhaps a kind of anti-Horcrux.

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

Either that or the 'The Whetstone of Tudwal Tudglyd';
Possessing the ability to ensure death would follow wounding.

Well he already has the mantle of Arthur

[madfilkentist]

The Chessboard of Gwenddolau is available for 9.95 (currency units intentionally not specified) in any electronics store.

[starkruzr.livejournal.com]

"Deathly Hallows" has all the semantic content of "Smurf," "Marklar," or "Malkovitch."

[kayshapero]

Actually I'd kind like to see "Harry Potter and the Great Gringots Caper" as Our Heroes get together with the Ghost of Dumbledore and clean out the joint... :)

[kadharonon.livejournal.com]

Hang him! Hang him! He's a witch!

*cough*

[kayshapero]

No, no, no, that's "wretch".

[moonreviews]

Where did you find that typo? In a newspaper?

The working title of the Dutch translation is 'The Deathly Sanctuaries', though it isn't sure yet if that'll become the title, because the translator only gets the book the day it is published in England.

[anghara.livejournal.com]

That's okay. It's a TYPO. But I saw a Guardian article actually refer to the author of said book as Joanne Rowlands.

I mean, WTF?!

[petermorwood.livejournal.com]

This is the Grauniad, after all, so she's lucky not to be J.K.R Towelking.

It's so good to see that the paper still maintains its reputation for a high level of typographic accuracy...

[famebound.livejournal.com]

I don't know if it is a *complete* typo, it does say "sinisterly titled" and the word "deathly" all by itself doesn't seem like enough for me unless they really were trying to sensationalize it... silly press people

[handworn.livejournal.com]

As opposed to the holistic, life-affirming gallows.

* snicker *

[tortoises.livejournal.com]

This post is too good not to +memories.