Printing Mistake

[zanooda2]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
<gbannister10 at ...> wrote:

> My Deluxe edition, which is dated as 1999 but which I bought in 2003, 
> possibly 2004 - depending on when I started getting the DL editions - 
> has Marcus Flint as a Sixth Year. Of course, that is the discrepancy 
> which established the new English word "flint" for an unforced error.


zanooda:

My British edition PS book (also 2004) gives Flint as a 5th year, and 
so does my American edition SS (p.150), which is actually first edition 
(1998), or at least I think so :-). Although I of course heard about 
the whole Flint thing, I personally never saw this mistake in print - 
none of my books has it! Maybe they correct those mistakes one by one, 
you know. For example, Waffling/Bagshot mistake - maybe your book is, 
say, second edition, and mine is third edition, and it makes all the 
difference. Otherwise I just can't explain it :-).