Re: Red Herring: Carruthers/Curruthers
Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2021 4:34 pm
So it is from Classic Elite, then. I could only find it here.Cody wrote: ↑Thu Nov 11, 2021 3:22 pmAye, I'm well aware of that typo. I chose not to correct it when I edited Coyote a while later.
I suspect I had The Riddle of the Sands in mind for some reason. A good read, is that.
I have sometimes wondered if that's where Bell and Braben got the name, and if that was in fact a typo too.
Apparently Pinder's TNK used Curruthers.
Is Carruthers really a typo?
Wikipedia: "Carruthers, sometimes Caruthers, is a Scottish surname and clan, originating from the lands of Carruthers in Dumfriesshire. "
and: "Carruthers Peak, formerly Curruthers Peak, a mountain in the Main Range of the Great Dividing Range, is located in Snowy Mountains region in southeast New South Wales, Australia."
Note: when you study the history of scribes/copyists, spelling mistakes in words with identical/similar pronounciations abound! The scribe would read the original text, remember the sound of the words and then write them down on the new manuscript.
The better sites on "scribal error" seem not to mention it, but I found it here & here (see #3).
