Did you spot the typo in the header?
Spotting weird typos can depend on several things:
Spotting weird typos can depend on several things:
- What font is being used. Some fonts offer plenty of white space between letters; others run them together, which makes weird typos like this much harder to notice.
- How involved were you in the reading. Perhaps, like me, you tend to gloss over unimportant stuff like chapter headings - let me get to the story!
- If you already know what the words should say (if you're the author perhaps), why would see something different from what you expect?
- And of course, if the words are deep in a complex plot or argument, your brain may be just too busy understanding what's going on to spot what's not.
Creating weird typos depends on several things too:
- Perhaps you typed "moderm" instead of "modern" and spell-check made the wrong guess.
- Perhaps you scanned in a document, and image-to-text failed to see the white space betweeen r and n.
- Perhaps you used text to speech and the words sounded the same.
- Or perhaps you mis-type the way you mis-speak; sometimes the word your fingers create really isn't what your brain intended.
Whatever the cause, fixing weird typos is fun, and it's part of why I love my job!
Meanwhile, yes indeed, that heading should have read "Hymns Ancient and Modern."