Lexical Leavings
by Tom Gally
A while back, while reading the galleys for an English-Japanese
dictionary, I came across an abbreviation I couldn't understand. I
don't remember the exact entry, but it was something like this:club [名]I spent several minutes scanning lists of abbreviations trying to figure out what "EP" stood for before I realized that this was supposed to be:
...(5) トランプの札のEPの一つ。
club [名]Apparently a handwritten 印 had been misinterpreted by the typesetter as "EP."
...(5) トランプの札の印の一つ。
(January 5, 2003)