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Re: Dilemma = Dilemna ??

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From: kyle
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 16:57
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In article <5207@shum.huji.ac.il>, yair@shum.huji.ac.il (Yair Friedman) writes:
> |> In article <1992Jul28.133921.2894@memstvx1.memst.edu> connolly@memstvx1.memst.edu writes:
> 
> |> 
> |> >What's interesting about dilemna is that it is oddly restricted to
> |> >Canada; no one so far has indicated even a single example from South
> |> >of the border.  
> 
> Here are examples outside Canada.
> 
> From Mt.Scopus library:
>  Author RUDOY, DEAN WILLIAM
>    Title ARMED AND ALONE
>   Sub-tl THE AMERICAN SECURITY DILEMNA
>    Place NEW YORK
>     Pub. G.BRAZILLER
>     Year 1972
>    Pages 96P
>  Subject UNITED STATES-MILITARY POLICY
> Author-a CITIZENS' HEARINGS ON NATIONAL SECURITY, WASHINGTON, D. C.,
>          1972
>        - COALITION ON NATIONAL PRIORITIES AND MILITARY POLICY
>   Year-f 1972
> 
> From Hebrew national library:
>   Author BULLIVANT, BRIAN MILTON
>    Title THE PLURALIST DILEMNA IN EDUCATION
>  Cont-tl SIX CASE STUDIES
> Add info BRIAN M. BULLIVANT
>  Imprint SYDNEY : G.ALLEN & UNWIN
>     Year 1983,C1981
>     Note INCLUDES INDEX
> Note-Bib BIBLIOGRAPHY: P.[245]-264
>    Dewey 371.98
> 
> I think this is a common typo. Since n is next to m on qwerty key keyboards this
> sort of error is very reasonable.  It is also hard to detect beacuse the letters
> look very similar.
> -- 
> 					Yair Friedman.
> yair@cs.huji.ac.il
> yair@hujinix.BITNET

Are your examples taken (as they appear to be) from computerized
library card catalogs? Or are they the titles as they appear on
the original publication?

Library catalog systems notoriously contain zillions of typos.
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