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USC Misspells Shakespeare On Newly Unveiled Statue

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BuckinArk's picture
August 23, 2017 at 8:41am
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Language is malleable, right? After all, a dictionary doesn't define a word's spelling, it simply gives the most common version of it. Well, how about a name?

UCLA's The Den tweeted Monday morning that a recently unveiled statue at the new $700 million USC Village displays a typo.

As the photo shows, a quote at the base of a Queen Hecuba statue unveiled this month as the centerpiece of the school's 1.2 million-square-foot development is attributed to "Shakespear's" Hamlet. The common spelling of the bard's name is "Shakespeare," of course, but don't tell that to USC.

http://laist.com/2017/08/22/usc_misspells_shakespeare.php

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