Evan Esar Quote

An alert copyreader on a newspaper couldn't believe it when he read a reporter's account of the theft of 2025 pigs. That's a lot of pigs, he thought, and called the farmer to check the copy. Is it true that you lost 2025 pigs? he asked. Yeth, lisped the farmer. Thanks, returned the copyreader, and corrected the story to read two sows and 25 pigs.

Humorous English (1961), p213

An alert copyreader on a newspaper couldn't believe it when he read a reporter's account of the theft of 2025 pigs. That's a lot of pigs, he thought, ...

An alert copyreader on a newspaper couldn't believe it when he read a reporter's account of the theft of 2025 pigs. That's a lot of pigs, he thought, ...

An alert copyreader on a newspaper couldn't believe it when he read a reporter's account of the theft of 2025 pigs. That's a lot of pigs, he thought, ...

An alert copyreader on a newspaper couldn't believe it when he read a reporter's account of the theft of 2025 pigs. That's a lot of pigs, he thought, ...