"Wherever we go in this great land of ours, we've found that people everywhere are 90% water," according to David Letterman. Daivd is an unusual typo for this group because it is an inverted letter in a very short word, and it looks obviously wrong. That doesn't stop it from appearing on the B, or high probability section of Typographical errors in library databases at http://faculty.quinnipiac.edu/libraries/tballard/typoscomplete.html In Google, there are fewer than 200,000 daivds. However, there are more than 300 of them in WorldCat, which helps to explain the high placement. As w
ith all inverted letter typos, the offending letters are on opposite sides of the keyboard, leading to left brain/right brain implications.
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Today's photo shows the Ed Sullivan Theater, where David Letterman presents his Top Ten Lists each weeknight. The original can be found at http://www.pbase.com/image/86692612
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