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==Typographical errors==
==Typographical errors==
The paper's nickname '''''The Grauniad''''' (sometimes abbreviated as "Graun") originated with the satirical magazine ''[[Private Eye]]''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/dec/16/society|title=Surely shome mishtake?|work=The Guardian|date=16 December 2000| location=London|last=Sherrin|first=Ned}}</ref> This [[anagram]] played on ''The Guardian's'' early reputation for frequent typographical errors, including misspelling its own name as ''The Gaurdian''.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=_oO5fWi6dikC&pg=PA26 |pages=26–27 |title=Porcupine, Picayune, & Post: how newspapers get their names |first=Jim|last=Bernhard|publisher=University of Missouri Press|year=2007|isbn=0-8262-1748-6|accessdate=11 August 2013}}</ref>
The paper's nickname '''''The Grauniad''''' (sometimes abbreviated as "Graun") originated with the satirical magazine ''[[Private Eye]]''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/dec/16/society|title=Surely shome mishtake?|work=The Guardian|date=16 December 2000| location=London|last=Sherrin|first=Ned}}</ref> This [[anagram]] played on ''The Guardian's'' early reputation for frequent typographical errors, including misspelling its own name as ''The Gaurdian''.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=_oO5fWi6dikC&pg=PA26 |pages=26–27 |title=Porcupine, Picayune, & Post: how newspapers get their names |first=Jim|last=Bernhard|publisher=University of Missouri Press|year=2007|isbn=0-8262-1748-6|accessdate=11 August 2013}}</ref>
== See also ==
*[[Polly Toynbee]]
==References==
==References==