7 Apr 2010 17:51
Daily Typo - April 6, 2010 - Box Edler (for Box Elder)
Typo of the Day for Librarians Box Edler (for Box Elder) Did you think of the tree? While its true that Box Elder is indeed a type of tree native to the central and eastern United States, its also a county in Utah. There, on May 10, 1869 at Promontory Summit, the nations first transcontinental railroad was completed. A joint project by the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads encompassing 1,800 miles of track, it took roughly six and a half years to build. Since 1957, this momentous achievement has been commemorated at the Golden Spike National Historic Site, where there are reenactments of the original ceremony joining the two rail lines with (you guessed it) a golden spike. Also on display are replicas of Central Pacific's Jupiter and Union Pacific's No. 119 engines. Box Edler is a typo of low probability with 5 entries in the OhioLink catalog. All occur in title fields for quadrangle maps of Box Elder County. (Utah State Quarter, United States Mint Image) Deb Kulczak 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 <terryballard@...>. -- *********************************************************************** AUTOCAT quoting guide: http://www.cwu.edu/~dcc/Autocat/copyright.html E-mail AUTOCAT listowners: autocat-request@... Search AUTOCAT archives: http://listserv.syr.edu/archives/autocat.html By posting messages to AUTOCAT, the author does not cede copyright ***********************************************************************
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