Re: [PEN-L] Churchill & footnote accuracy

[Sandwichman]

Jesus f***ing Christ. And all these years I've been labouriously going through my footnotes to make sure they're 100% accurate. I could have been doing something more productive. Like getting in a sh**-flinging contest with someone I've never met. Pardon my asstrix.

On 5/25/06, michael perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/22/2003
  Laurie Wermter
  Reference Department
  Memorial Library University of Wisconsin-Madison
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  "about 30-45 percent of the footnotes in a published work will contain
an error of some kind, while about TEN percent of the total footnotes in
the published work will have an error so major as to prevent the cited
work from being found. My apologies for having mis-remembered the
figures, but the actual numbers of errors in footnotes are still quite
daunting."

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Sandwichman