Damn my eyes

I have the soul of a copy-editor, and a proofreader's unfortunate eyesight. I can find misprints and inconsistencies in any piece of printed text: promotional copy or restaurant menus or whatever comes to hand.

I have tended, more and more as this effect is exaggerated, to blame the times we live in - but that may just be laziness on my part, seeking the easy excuse.

I was talking t'other day about Nuttall's Standard Dictionary, from 1930?

I just found a misprint in it.

Its definition of "rapt" - absorbed; in an ecstacy.

Good grief. I thought the internet had invented that particular solecism; but no. It's been with us for eighty years at least.