Potter Fug
We thought we'd discovered a glorious typo in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Third chapter, first paragraph:
Harry Potter was snoring loudly. He had been sitting in a chair beside his bedroom window for the best part of four hours, staring out at the darkening street, and had finally fallen asleep with one side of his face pressed against the cold window pane, his glasses askew and his mouth wide open. The misty fug his breath had left on the window sparkled in the orange glare of the streetlamp outside, and the artificial light drained his face of all color, so that he looked ghostly beneath his shock of untidy black hair.
Nope. Wizard News says that "fug" is
just a word that's unfamiliar to many readers. Webster's Tenth New Collegiate Dictionary defines "fug" as "a stuffy or malodorous emanation," which is perfectly in keeping with Harry's sleepy breathing. This usage is therefore correct as it stands.
This will surely disappoint Hemingway, Ed Sanders and Heather and Jessica as much as it did us.
Harry Potter was snoring loudly. He had been sitting in a chair beside his bedroom window for the best part of four hours, staring out at the darkening street, and had finally fallen asleep with one side of his face pressed against the cold window pane, his glasses askew and his mouth wide open. The misty fug his breath had left on the window sparkled in the orange glare of the streetlamp outside, and the artificial light drained his face of all color, so that he looked ghostly beneath his shock of untidy black hair.
Nope. Wizard News says that "fug" is
just a word that's unfamiliar to many readers. Webster's Tenth New Collegiate Dictionary defines "fug" as "a stuffy or malodorous emanation," which is perfectly in keeping with Harry's sleepy breathing. This usage is therefore correct as it stands.
This will surely disappoint Hemingway, Ed Sanders and Heather and Jessica as much as it did us.
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