TYPOGRAPHICAL HUMOUR.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 405, 11 February 1904, Page 7

TYPOGRAPHICAL HUMOUR.

A Liberal organ, during the last General Election, in report : ng a Conservative meeting, spoke of a number of ladies on the platform who received the candidate with welcoming ' snouts.' This gave the Tory paper a chance to refer, in scathing terms, to the political venom which could prompt such language when speaking of ladies. It was useless to explain that 'shouts' was the word in. tended, and not 'snouts.' The damage was done. The Liberal candidate made a poor fight after such an unfortunate slip. An error like this is caused by lifting the wrong type. Those who are acquainted with the arrangement of the composißgroom will know that the various letters are arranged in different compartments of a case which stands in front a! the printer. i Sometimes, in the hurry of redistributing type, letters get thrown into the wrong division. The printer puts his hand into the box containing the'type 'h' and pulls out ' n,' with the result that we find ' snouts' instead of 'shouts.' A West of Ireland paper, in the course of a long eulogy on a prominent Irish politician, spoke of him as ' the greatest thief Ireland had known since the days of Owen Boe O'Neill.' The leader-writer meant to say 'chief,' but a't' had got into the 'o' box, and, as the printer said, 'the devil did the reßt.'

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