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Subject: Re: great typo in "Stainless Steel Rat is Born"
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From: Dave 


    From: nsc!chuqui@topaz.rutgers.edu (Chuq Von Rospach)
    Subject: great typo in "Stainless Steel Rat is Born"
    Date: 16 Oct 85 16:01:55 GMT

    As long as we're talking about typos, I just started Harrison's
    new book "A Stainless Steel Rat is Born" (Spectra, $2.95). There
    is a REALLY cute typo in the first chapter (page 4, as a matter
    of fact) that goes "Imagine if you can -- and you will need a
    fertile imagination indeed -- a one-tonne angry boar hog with
    sharp tushes and mean dispositions."

    I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want to be sat upon by
    that animal..... You don't suppose they really meant tusks, do
    you???  *giggle*

    Chuq Von Rospach
    Currently: nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA
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    Soon to be:  ..!sun!


I thought this was great the first time I saw this.  I laughed for
quite a while.  I even told some people about it.  Guess what one of
them had to say?  He thought that tushes wasn't a typo...that it did
mean tusks.  So I looked it up in my Webster's New Collegiate
Dictionary and found the following (/e means upsidedown, /u means a
bar over, and /o means a bar over):

	tush \'t/esh\ n [ME @i(tusch), fr. OE @i(t/usc); askin to
	  OFris @i(tusk) tooth, OE @i(t/oth) tooth]: A long pointed
	  tooth; @i(esp): a horse's canine.

Oh well, it would have been funny if it were a typo, but looks like
it's not.  Good try though.

ds
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