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| Sherburne County Star News, frontpage January 11, 1900 |
An
interesting column published in the Sherburne County Star News emphasizes the
challenges of 1920s technology. This
brief statement generates some appreciation for the 21st century
ability to communicate:
"The
Star news admits that it occasionally make typographical errors and we are not
ashamed of it,” the paper reported.
“Possibly the general public does not know it, but in an ordinary column
there are 10,000 pieces of type. There
are 7 possible wrong positions for each letter, 70,000 chances to make errors
and millions of possible transpositions.
In the sentence, “To be or not to be,” by transpositions alone 2,759,022
errors can be made.”
The
paper concluded their column with the defiant claim, “No paper is ever without
errors and there never will be one.”
Considering
this, spell check on my word processing program makes me appreciate the
computer technology more than ever.
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