Blame it on the spell-check program?
Jan. 5th, 2006 11:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dagibbsIncubus Dreams, latest Anita Blake novel by Laurell K. Hamilton (yeah, I'm late getting around to it), page 7, "He didn't want to squeak the mundanes, so...". The word is squick. I'd even bet that was the word in the original copy, but I'll also bet someone (without the right type of clue) applied a spell-checker, and accepted "squeak" as a suggested replacement for "squick". *sigh*
(e.g. LJ's spell checker suggests, "quick, squawk, squeak, sick, suck, ... ")
(e.g. LJ's spell checker suggests, "quick, squawk, squeak, sick, suck, ... ")
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don't even care about plot!
Date: 2006-01-05 09:16 pm (UTC)I think when I saw squeaked, I thought squicked, but this does seem to happen rather regularly in books now that editing is a computer and not really a person paying attention to content, rather a pisser if you ask me...maybe keep a list since you really were conscious of this and send it off to Ms Hamilton she can blister the editor! HEHEHE