Daily Typo - July 2, 2009 - Sliver* (for Silver*)

Typo of the Day for Librarians
Sliver* (for Silver*)

In today's tarnished economy, a small sliver of silver may soon be worth 
more than a tall pile of paper. Eleven results were returned for a 
search in OhioLINK on *Sliver* + Silver**. One, for a recording by Fats 
Waller, renders the title: "By the light of the slivery [i.e. silvery] 
moon." One appears to contain both words correctly spelled. And in 
another case, we're faced with either a /Henry Silver/ or a /Henry 
Sliver/, although I'm gonna put my money on the first. There may, of 
course, be other cases of *Sliver** for /silver*/ in the catalog, but 
since both are words in their own right, a combined search is probably 
the best way to data mine them efficiently. At any rate, I only found 
pieces of eight, so it could certainly be a lot worse. Remember, while 
your piece of the pie may be just a tiny sliver, every cloud has a 
silver lining.

(I like the doting way the uploader describes this picture on Wikimedia: 
"A small, shiny, freshly refined lump of pure, fine silver metal.")

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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