On Monday I spotted the following in the Metro free paper (click to see a larger version):
The body copy refers to 'Peace Pie Street' when the photo clearly shows 'Peach Pie Street'. Admittedly, they both make nice names.
(The sign pictured above is "another fantasy-inspired street sign" because the full Metro article also included a photo of 'Treacle Mine Road'. I decided not to scan in the entire thing, but you can see the other photo if you like in the web version of the story – which as I write this still includes the Peace/Peach mistake.)
Here are our previous Pratchett ponderings:
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You probably caught the Times story back in February about the most shop-lifted books in Britain. Terry Pratchett came in at number 3, the highest-placed identifiable author - am I allowed to link to my own post about it, here? I shan't particularly mind if I'm not and you delete it.
Of course you are allowed to link to your own post! Thanks for asking, though. It's unsurprising that novels by big-name novelists such as Pratchett and Rowling are often shoplifted; it would be more interesting to see some sort of ratio of copies sold versus copies shoplifted.
And I'm not sure whether to be heartened or disheartened by the OED's appearance at number nine in the list...
At the price the OED sells for? I'm not surprised...
I'm sure there's a joke in there somewhere about the sort of sentence you'd get for stealing an OED. Just can't quite think of it...
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