Printing Mistake

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "zanooda2" <zanooda2 at ...> wrote:
>
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
> <gbannister10@> 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 :-).

Geoff:
It's a flint.
:-))