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- Title
RECIPROCALTY: A MISPRINT FROM ROBERT BURTON IN OED.
- Authors
Blair, Rhonda L.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the word "Reciprocally," which is listed in several obsolete and rare variants, one of which is reciprocalty. Through the resettings of the Anatomy and compositorial error this unique word arose from two words, reciprocall and tye in Robert Burton's book. When the second edition was printed in 1624 the word reciprocall fell at the end of the line, and through an error by the compositor a hyphen was set with it, tye was then set at the beginning of the following line. In the third and fourth editions the erroneously hyphenated word became reciprocaltie and in the last two editions reciprocalty.
- Subjects
SPELLING errors; VOCABULARY; PUBLISHED errata; BURTON, Robert; HYPHEN; PUBLICATIONS
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 1988, Vol 35, Issue 1, p69
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/nq/35-1-69b