Funny English Errors and Insights

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Welcome to the website for Funny English Errors and Insights (2010), a new book of unconscious humour published by the National Library of Australia.

Funny English Errors and Insights will be launched at the National Library in Canberra on 29th, October 2010.

In the meantime, explore this website for other collections of real-life English language mistakes, including funny answers to exam questions, media misprints, and silly signs.

See Funny English Errors: The B List for more than a hundred examples of funny English gaffes（失言）. For more funny English errors, read author Troy Simpson's blog. For still more examples,, join this website to download a free PDF version of English As She Is Taught, which lists our top 250 funny English language mistakes from that classic howlers book.

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Features

   Follows in the tradition of the runaway best-seller Howlers books of the 1920s and 1930s

Includes quotes(引文) that have never been published before in this way

Includes more than 30 carefully selected funny photos

Topics include English, science, history, geography, religion, mathematics, and more

A perfect gift for students, teachers, parents, grandparents, public speakers, doctors, lawyers, journalists, clergy and religious, and anyone with a sense of humour!

The word launched in the second paragraph is closest to the meaning:

A. sent up for the first time.              B. written for the first time.  

C. for sale for the first time.          D. printed for the first time.

On the website ,you can do the following things except      .         

A. read some funny news

B. know something about this book previously

C. find a lot of examples about English errors

D. express your opinions freely

About this book, you know that       .

A. it only includes English, science, history

B. it is quite different from Howlers books

C. all the quotes in it are familiar with us

D. it is intended for people all walks of life

The text is aimed at introducing      .

A. a popular website   B. some selected funny photos

C. a new book        D. some funny English errors

                                      

【小題1】C

【小題2】A

【小題3】D

【小題4】C


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