Wednesday, August 14, 2013

The Guardian misspells pogonophobia

Thanks to Paxman many people now know what the word pogonophobia means.

Indeed, it certainly has opened a can of worms. In today's Guardian the word is misspelt. The Guardian spells a fear of beards as 'pogorophobia.

The word is not in the Concise Collins Dictionary, 2006 but it is listed on the web.

Splitting hairs?

1 comment:

Steve Murray said...

They only misspell it on the front page pull quote. It's correct in the news story on page 11. Interestingly, Tim Dowling's comment piece in G2 uses 'sic' to show Paxman spelt the word incorrectly as 'pognophobic' in his press release.

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