The Telegraph reports that the Cambridge University Classics Department “is facing embarrassment after misspelling a quote from Aristotle on the doors of a new £1.3 million extension”:
Academics chose the line “all men by nature desiring to know” but spelt the word “phusei,” “by nature,” with an English S rather than the Greek letter sigma. . . .A related post
Professor of Classics Mary Beard, 55, a member of the department, expressed her dissatisfaction in a blog posting about the 5,500sq ft extension which was completed in March.
“Even the gods have shown their disapproval in their own inimitable way,” she wrote.
“Collage” (Another Cambridge misspelling)
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I hope they properly cited Aristotle, too!
-Ben-istotle
Did the gods smite the extension with a bolt?
Ben, I knew that this story would amuse you.
Elaine, Mary Beard has various complaints about the building, so she sees the misspelling as the gods’ way of expressing disapproval.
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