You think that's weird? I'm a linguist -- a language scientist -- and I'm working with biomedical texts. So I read an abstract* that mentioned Sertoli cells**, with a "t", and I thought it said Serioli cells!
* It might have been this one: http://tinyurl.com/8b23c (goes to http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=7679985&query_hl=1 )
** http://www.whonamedit.com/synd.cfm/518.html
-- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel [This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.]
PS: Look at the picture and say hi to my friend, familiar, and assistant conscience Loiosh.
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* It might have been this one: http://tinyurl.com/8b23c (goes to http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=7679985&query_hl=1 )
** http://www.whonamedit.com/synd.cfm/518.html
-- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian,
Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody
a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel
[This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.]
PS: Look at the picture and say hi to my friend, familiar, and assistant conscience Loiosh.