Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Mercury Retro Typos!

Scotland's "forgotten poet," Robert Fergusson, (whose work inspired Robert Burns so much that he paid for Fergusson's headstone in an Edinburgh churchyard, has been remembered by admirers who arranged a bronze memorial surrounded by paving stones with Fergusson's name, dates and the opening line of his most famous poem, "Auld Reikie," a description of a day in Edinburgh. It turns out the paving stones have a spelling error, misspelling the street, Canongate, as Cannongate.

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