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Originally Posted by Taylor514ce
How's this for a nit-pick? Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nymh. During the conversation about plowing, the shrew asks Mrs. Frisby, "Remember in the spring of sixty-five? He plowed on the eleventh of March, and on a Sunday at that."
In 1965, March 11 fell on a Thursday, not a Sunday.
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I tend not to regard 'mistakes' in dialogue as problemmatic.
People misremember stuff in real life conversations all the time, so why not allow them to in novels?