Re: Coniston frost


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Posted by Peter Ceresole on January 06, 2009 at 19:52:10 user PeterC.

In Reply to: Re: Coniston frost posted by Alan Hakim on January 06, 2009 at 18:16:53:

I agree with you that it should be The Dogs' Home, but can you tell us how you know that is the spelling AR preferred?

It seems overwhelmingly likely, to me.

After all, AR could write English (noone better) and unless it's referring to one particular Fido, 'The Dogs' Home' is right. Plus, that's the chapter heading. The running title in the first edition sounds like it must have been a Cape typo. And it was printed in 1943, so paper would have been very hard to come by. When they spotted it, they would have been sorely tempted to let it pass, and fix it in the next run.

In my 1948 sixth impression the running title is 'The Dogs' Home' so they'd fixed it by then. Anybody got a second impression that would confirm that they fixed it as soon as they could?

It's not the slightest bit surprising that this would get by even keen proof reading. When I made a 'Horizon' on global warming, many of us saw it endless times in the production process and in the end there was a name caption that read 'Dr Mick Kelly, Univeristy of East Anglia'. I just had a vague feeling that there was something wrong and viewed the programme again, on the Sunday before transmission, and recoiled in horror. Fortunately it wasn't war time and the BBC had the resources to scrape together, and fix it. But it was a jolly close run thing. At a printing house in the dark days of the war, I'd have thought that everything was more difficult than usual.


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