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Old 11-20-2015, 04:14 PM   #90
Little.Egret
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
Perhaps you mean it has typographic errors? It seems unlikely that the text of the original HC printing was OCRed from another source. Although I suppose if the author submitted a typescript it's just possible.
I meant that it had typical OCR errors like dose for close and 'nn' for 'm'

How it got them I don't know. As you say the author's typescript could have been OCR'd or indeed the manuscript re-keyboarded in China by someone who knew no English.
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