July 31, 2013

In a correction last Saturday, the Guardian got closer to getting the name of a village correct on a map it published, but not close enough. On Monday, The Guardian corrected its correction.”

Alas, the biter bit. A correction attempting to spell the village of Bosherston in Pembrokeshire, originally referred to in the paper as Boshington, was misspelled as Bosherton (Corrections and clarifications, 27 July, page 40).

Quaint British villages, they’re all interchangeable anyway, right?

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