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Wednesday, September 4, 2019

For Context-Full Stop!

From The Second Amendment Isn’t About Hunting. Period., I thought it was quite humorous that the title included "Period." and then, in the body of the article, there's a typo. Instead of using a period after "For context" below, a comma should have been used.


For context. 21 U.S. states have right to hunt and fish amendments, but those are independent of the U.S. Constitution.

Is there a name for when a title of a piece of writing predicts a typo within the article? "Predictus Errorus" sounds okay.

Editor's Note: Both a screenshot and the text not in a screenshot are included above in the hope that someday, when viewing the article, the typo will be expunged from the article at which point the screenshot will be the only proof that the typo existed.

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