S'il vous est déjà arrivé de regretter amèrement d'avoir laissé passer des coquilles dans un billet de blog, une copie, ou un mémoire, cette histoire vous consolera peut-être : elle est tirée d'un article discutant les particularités de l'industrie du livre au dix-septième siècle.
Printers had to work quickly. (...) As a result, their errors were often multicharacter ones, which could "corrupt & pervert the sence (sic)". The most common of all were monosyllabic ; the worst appeared in the early 1630s, when the King's Printers themselves omitted the word "not" from the Seventh Commandment and exhorted Charles's subjects to commit adultery.
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