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Re:Never use a URL shortening service – even if you own it by alwaysbeconsing on Sunday February 19, 2023 @12:30PM (#34859710)
Complete tangent but I was struck by the typo in this sentence

> Millions of links around the web - including many on the Grauniad itself - are all now broken.

Which made very large positional changes but to just the right combination letters to produce another plausible-sounding name out of "Guardian".

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Re:Never use a URL shortening service – even if you own it by anonymouskimmer on Sunday February 19, 2023 @12:39PM (#34859808)
It's not a typo. https://wordhistories.net/2017/06/05/origin-of-grauniad/
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Re:Never use a URL shortening service – even if you own it by leephillips on Sunday February 19, 2023 @12:36PM (#34859775)
It’s a common joke:

https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/graun...

Something to do with frequent typos in the paper, I think.

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Re:Never use a URL shortening service – even if you own it by alwaysbeconsing on Sunday February 19, 2023 @07:15PM (#34863369)
Fascinating, thanks!
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