Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Magentic (for Magnetic)


The "ne" in Magnetic appears to have reversed polarity in many online catalogs, causing the typo "Magentic" (for Magnetic).
Wendee Eyler
Today's photo: Satellite-Video of Earth's Magnetic field. From http://www.dailygalaxy.com/

2 comments:

casemusic said...

But not a typo in the text of Finnegans Wake: "Willingdone, grand and magentic in his goldtin spurs," etc.

Felicity Pickup said...

Also magento* in compound words.