Howdy!

Nothing, per se, but...

I once saw a presentation by the Swedish Name Institute talking about
place names.

They had two place whose original names were identical, but over the
centuries, they changed. One modern form was recognizably close to the
original.
The other, through scibal errors that became "official" by being
written down, was completely unrecognizable. We're talking bizarre
strings of letters that do not normally appear in Swedish at any time
now or past. But there they were, with citations. "qq" is not a letter
sequence one would expect ever in a name, but there it was.

yours,
Michael

On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 8:09 AM Jeff Zeitlin - editor at
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> On one forum that I'm fairly regular on, there's one user who participates
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> built-in autocorrupt, his postings have quite a bit of ... shall we say,
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> At any rate, in his activity recently, he mentioned an "email inbox", but,
> naturally, it didn't come out quite that way, and as a result, I need to
> roll up a character to go with the name:
>
>      Emali Ibnox
>
>
> Has anyone else ever encountered a random typo that immediately became a
> name for a character?
>
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