Editorial: Errors (10-25-41)

The Pittsburgh Press (October 25, 1941)

Errors

Britain’s Ministry of Agriculture, reports the New York Herald Tribune, made a serious error in announcing a plan:

…to improve a considerable area of land in the neighborhood of Llanfairpwillgyngligerchwrnodrobwlllandsiliogogogoch, in Wales.

The name, says the Herald Tribune, should have been spelled:

Ilanfairpwllgwyngyligergerychwyrndrobwllalanosylizgogogoch.

Tut, tut! As every schoolboy knows, the name should have been spelled:

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.

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