Wednesday 16 July 2008

In the Trade, This is Known as a Cock-Up

Oh dear. The otherwise nicely retro cover to a new edition of Dumas' The Three Musketeers from HarperCollins has a bit of a problem.




They're musketeers because they use muskets, you see. MuskAteers would presumably fight using sweet white grapes.

UPDATE: Someone had a (friendly) go elsewhere about my spelling of "muskat"--true, it's normally "muscat", but "muskat" is a genuine (less-used) spelling. And it's a genuine word, too, distinct from (but synonymous with) "muscatel". Look to your Macquarie Dictionaries, people!

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