Daily Typo - July 3, 2009 - Throuth (for Through)

Typo of the Day for Librarians
Throuth (for Through)

People have been known to seek Truth in many different ways. Some do it 
through study, some through observation, some through service, and some 
through meditation. They pledge their troth to these practices like 
others pledge love and loyalty to a spouse. Such efforts do not always 
pay off, though, causing them to throw over the truth in order to line 
up like pigs at the trough of sensual delights. Today's typo looks as if 
it might be standing in for some of the words that appear in the first 
several sentences above (/truth/, /through/, /troth/, /though/, /throw/, 
and /trough/). However, the nine we found in OhioLINK were all for the 
word /through/. This flub seems to occur when we think we're all through 
after getting to the U and start over at the beginning before finishing 
up at the end.

(/La Vérité/ by Jules Joseph Lefebvre, 1870, from Wikimedia Commons.)

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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