Daily Typo - September 5, 2008 - Austrailia*, Austalia* (for Australia, etc.)

Typo of the Day for Librarians
Austrailia*, Austalia* (for Australia, etc.)

When hiking in Australia, make sure not to lose sight of the trail. There were 13 hits for Austrailia* and 16
for Austalia* in OhioLINK at last count. In Norman Lindsey's famous children's book The Magic Pudding,
various characters take successive bites of the eponymous foodstuff while never diminishing the whole.
This magic fails to work on words, though, which are not self-regenerating but rely on us to keep them
properly intact. (Photo of Magic Pudding sculpture in Lavender Bay, Sydney, from the New York Review of
Books website.)

Carol Reid

Extracted, for AUTOCAT, from Typo of the Day for Librarians at http://librarytypos.blogspot.com/. If
you have comments about the words selected, how they are selected, or the way the items are written, please
contact Terry Ballard <terry.ballard@...>.  

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