Automation

[Neil Cerutti]

On 2013-11-15, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Nov 2013 20:03:44 +0000, Alister wrote:
>> As a native of England I have to agree it is far to arrogant
>> to expect everyone else to be able to speak good English when
>> I can barley order a beer in any other language. (even or
>> especially in the USA)
>
> Apparently you can "barley" write UK English either :-)
>
> No offence intended, I just thought that was an amusing error
> to make. The word you're after is "barely", barley is a grain
> similar to wheat or oats. Also "far too arrogant".

I just learned about this kind of error yesterday while browsing
the programming reddit!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry's_law

-- 
Neil Cerutti