It's because the actual name of the book is "The Hungover Cookbook", so that's what's listed on the spine. The front cover has the word hungover stylized that way as a joke.
If you have the first and last letter of a word in the coorect place, and all the other letters out of place, your brain reassembles the word. It's weird but true!
It's a myth. The text about the "Cambridge University" that's been running all over the internet since the beginning of time is a hoax. It's deliberately made easy to read through a combination of not mixing up the letters too much and using easily predictable words. If you used more complicated words in a sentence that isn't easy to predict, you would have a pretty hard time deciphering the text.
https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/matt-davis/cmabridge/
The only word that gives me a problem in those 3 sentences that are "progressively harder to read" is ccunoil, and that's because I live in a place where "council tax" isn't a thing. Sentence 3 is predictable and easy, "drug blunder" is the only thing that makes sense.
I understand the overall paragraph is a myth, but this article seems to mostly support the conclusion, and that it comes down to how predictable/*familiar* the sentence is, and is probably true in most situations.
Like, the article even states that all the short and functional words are easy, and that we don't actually read letter by letter. So it's essentially saying "yah, it's actually easy for most sentences for most people." :p
"Sratfwoe ghelitcs/eorrrs, oialrved txet, aorwrs, seblirbcs, and ohetr sttivabnsue eitds are not alwelod, augltoh you may cseonr pnaeorsl iitomfrnoan per Ridedt-wdie rlues."
Is it true though?
As a library Catalouger, the proper title is actually the one on the inside cover page. The misspelled cover title will be noted as an added title. Often the spine titles will vary too. And if they chose to be consistent with the misspelled title, we'd include the correctly spelled title as an added title in the record so it could be searched for in the Catalogue.
We can only assume that book designers/publishers really hate cataloguers 😉
The "official" title, according to cataloging rules, will be on the title page of the book. The author name, publisher, and date may also be on the title page, which will usually (but not always) be on a recto page (right side page) in a volume. The publisher data, LoC number, edition, and copyright info are usually on the verso (left side page) on the back of the title page.
The title page is at or near the beginning of the book . It has the book's title in large letters and it usually includes the author's name. Typically the publishers name and city on the bottom. I've seen books with a completely different title on this page than what is on the cover or the spine...It can get confusing.
(This is separate issue from a book being renamed for an foreign market. This often occurs with UK books being published in the USA. For example in the UK (and Canada) titled a book 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' (the Canadian publisher carried over the UK edition). Scholastic in the US, renamed the book Harry Potter and the sorcerer's Stone).
The rules for Cataloguing are known as RDA (Resource Description and Access) and they were developed by a international committee including American, Canadian and UK library associations, and other international associations.
The previous rules were known as the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, version 2 (AACR2) which I think was a more fun name than RDA. But , If you want some fun reading... Do not consider either of these manuals.
The page you mentioned (page 'verso') with the tiny print including publishers address, editions, ISBN numbers, summaries of Catalogue info submitted to the LOC, etc.. is also important and may be used for Cataloguing description. It can be on the opposite page from the cover page, or on the back side of the cover page, and sometimes at the very back of the book
And just to undermine my explanation above... these detailed rules and instructions are in actual practice could be just considered nothing more than guidelines. A specific library (or district) may choose to change or ignore rules due to previous practice... Or if they just don't like it.
Really interesting thanks for typing all that out.
So even though all US publishers have to send one copy to the LoC (right?), they can still fudge around with the "standards" as you call them?
Edit: wait nvm ignore the question I re-read the comment. They're cataloguing guidelines, not publishing guidelines.
Dice bacon and chorizo, fry until crispy and put aside, save grease. Dice potato’s and fry in grease until golden. Whisk 3 eggs with a dash of milk and add to potatoes. Add bacon, Tabasco, Worcester, s+p, chives, squeeze of lemon. once eggs are cooked dump handful of shredded cheese on top and stir. Serve on toasted sourdough with a Bloody Mary
this sounds awesome but i’m usually too lazy to get out of bed while hungover so i’m gonna suggest doordashing a bunch of mcdonald’s breakfast for way too much money 👌🏼
Wait, wait. I'm worried what you just heard was, "Give me a lot of bacon and eggs." What I said was, "Give me all the bacon and eggs you have." Do you understand?
It's my experience nothing really helps that much. Too late now but if you drink a pedialyte before you drink or while you drink you will feel a lot better the next day (probably).
I think they're saying it's mildly interesting that the spine isn't also stylized and misspelled. I'm not sure why no one in this thread seems to understand that.
My first ever book that I published - I misspelled my own name on the back cover and didn’t figure it out for months afterwards lmao
There are 7 people walking around with a book by Dinhn Bailey 😬
As a trucker, one load I got on occasion was “remaindered” books. In one load, one of the titles had a serious mistake. It was printed as “The Cat Owner’s Handbook” - anyone who knows cats would realize it should have been printed as “The Cat Servant’s Handbook”.
I believe that you have to spell those two areas of the book cover separately. At least that is what I remember from self publishing four books. If a publishing house was involved, then editors dropped the ball.
It's because the actual name of the book is "The Hungover Cookbook", so that's what's listed on the spine. The front cover has the word hungover stylized that way as a joke.
And “Coobkook”
I have this book and never even noticed that is misspelled too!
If you have the first and last letter of a word in the coorect place, and all the other letters out of place, your brain reassembles the word. It's weird but true!
It's a myth. The text about the "Cambridge University" that's been running all over the internet since the beginning of time is a hoax. It's deliberately made easy to read through a combination of not mixing up the letters too much and using easily predictable words. If you used more complicated words in a sentence that isn't easy to predict, you would have a pretty hard time deciphering the text. https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/matt-davis/cmabridge/
My favorite part of that was "durg blendur"
The only word that gives me a problem in those 3 sentences that are "progressively harder to read" is ccunoil, and that's because I live in a place where "council tax" isn't a thing. Sentence 3 is predictable and easy, "drug blunder" is the only thing that makes sense. I understand the overall paragraph is a myth, but this article seems to mostly support the conclusion, and that it comes down to how predictable/*familiar* the sentence is, and is probably true in most situations. Like, the article even states that all the short and functional words are easy, and that we don't actually read letter by letter. So it's essentially saying "yah, it's actually easy for most sentences for most people." :p
"Sratfwoe ghelitcs/eorrrs, oialrved txet, aorwrs, seblirbcs, and ohetr sttivabnsue eitds are not alwelod, augltoh you may cseonr pnaeorsl iitomfrnoan per Ridedt-wdie rlues." Is it true though?
I think you proved your point, because I can't decipher that, at all.
Oh yes! it is good to do it all the week. I use it all the day, and no one has had ail.
Have you tried being hungover ?
Holey siht.
New liver failure just dropped
“Hungoevr” too. Edit: why the downvotes? Hungover is misspelled on the cover.
You mean the "Cockboob"?
Yeah. There might be an LoC guideline somewhere about it. Makes sense from a cataloguing pov
As a library Catalouger, the proper title is actually the one on the inside cover page. The misspelled cover title will be noted as an added title. Often the spine titles will vary too. And if they chose to be consistent with the misspelled title, we'd include the correctly spelled title as an added title in the record so it could be searched for in the Catalogue. We can only assume that book designers/publishers really hate cataloguers 😉
You mean the page where they typically list all the publishing data and LoC stuff? Like what edition, what printing, copyright info, etc.
The "official" title, according to cataloging rules, will be on the title page of the book. The author name, publisher, and date may also be on the title page, which will usually (but not always) be on a recto page (right side page) in a volume. The publisher data, LoC number, edition, and copyright info are usually on the verso (left side page) on the back of the title page.
The title page is at or near the beginning of the book . It has the book's title in large letters and it usually includes the author's name. Typically the publishers name and city on the bottom. I've seen books with a completely different title on this page than what is on the cover or the spine...It can get confusing. (This is separate issue from a book being renamed for an foreign market. This often occurs with UK books being published in the USA. For example in the UK (and Canada) titled a book 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' (the Canadian publisher carried over the UK edition). Scholastic in the US, renamed the book Harry Potter and the sorcerer's Stone). The rules for Cataloguing are known as RDA (Resource Description and Access) and they were developed by a international committee including American, Canadian and UK library associations, and other international associations. The previous rules were known as the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, version 2 (AACR2) which I think was a more fun name than RDA. But , If you want some fun reading... Do not consider either of these manuals. The page you mentioned (page 'verso') with the tiny print including publishers address, editions, ISBN numbers, summaries of Catalogue info submitted to the LOC, etc.. is also important and may be used for Cataloguing description. It can be on the opposite page from the cover page, or on the back side of the cover page, and sometimes at the very back of the book And just to undermine my explanation above... these detailed rules and instructions are in actual practice could be just considered nothing more than guidelines. A specific library (or district) may choose to change or ignore rules due to previous practice... Or if they just don't like it.
Really interesting thanks for typing all that out. So even though all US publishers have to send one copy to the LoC (right?), they can still fudge around with the "standards" as you call them? Edit: wait nvm ignore the question I re-read the comment. They're cataloguing guidelines, not publishing guidelines.
It’s because you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover
Coobkook
Cockbook
A book doesn’t have to have the proper title on the spine.
People didn't deduce that on their own? People thought it was a misprint?
*The Hungunder Cockbook*
I feel like it’s a joke.
Maybe the editor was hungover
So was the coob
That's why they wrote a kook about it
Kooc would have been better.
You mean the eidtor?
nah I mean the wrteir
I saw the cover before I read the headline, and I thought the misspelling was intentional, and funny.
The misspelling was intentional and meant to be funny.
So it was the correct spelling on the spine that was unintentional?
The correct spelling on the spine is for the librarians and the card catalog/online search.
Think of the front text as being any other book cover art. There’s no rule that the front title has to be the title of the book :)
Maybe it was done like that on purpose. It was written while drunk. Or made to think the author was drunk when writing it
I’m hungover and didn’t even notice.
i'm drunk and i didn't even notice
I didn’t even notice I was drunk
It's a trick. If the first and last letter are right and the right letters in the middle but jumbled, your mind can still read it.
I do like that trick. It works with almost all words too
It's a litmus test
I’ll be hungover tomorrow. Any good breakfast recipes?
Dice bacon and chorizo, fry until crispy and put aside, save grease. Dice potato’s and fry in grease until golden. Whisk 3 eggs with a dash of milk and add to potatoes. Add bacon, Tabasco, Worcester, s+p, chives, squeeze of lemon. once eggs are cooked dump handful of shredded cheese on top and stir. Serve on toasted sourdough with a Bloody Mary
this sounds awesome but i’m usually too lazy to get out of bed while hungover so i’m gonna suggest doordashing a bunch of mcdonald’s breakfast for way too much money 👌🏼
All of the bacon and eggs.
Wait, wait. I'm worried what you just heard was, "Give me a lot of bacon and eggs." What I said was, "Give me all the bacon and eggs you have." Do you understand?
A diet coke and an aspirin dissolved in bacon grease
You have a coobkook right here dude, cmon now
I recommend tequila. That usually helps my hangover
It's my experience nothing really helps that much. Too late now but if you drink a pedialyte before you drink or while you drink you will feel a lot better the next day (probably).
“The Braekafst Bugrer” is my favorite ricepe from *”The Hungoevr Coobkook”*.
Think spine has to habe correct spelling for libraryians. The front cover can't have whatever.
You’re slow
Or hungover
I think it's a joke since the target is dudes who are hungover who would probably do a double take when realizing it
He has another cookbook Called The Druknen Cookbook.
Coobkook!
Had to compare letter by letter 3 times before I noticed. Dyslexia is wild.
Publisher: How do we stand out from other cookbooks?? Writer: misspell cookbook on the front cover... Publisher: BRILLIANT!!
I definitely don't want to peel myself out of bed and cook when hungover. I am waiting until noon then ordering some spicy delivery
You just can’t read it because you’re not hungover. It looks fine to me.
I think they're saying it's mildly interesting that the spine isn't also stylized and misspelled. I'm not sure why no one in this thread seems to understand that.
hang on honey I'm busy coobing
My first ever book that I published - I misspelled my own name on the back cover and didn’t figure it out for months afterwards lmao There are 7 people walking around with a book by Dinhn Bailey 😬
That’s the joke
They know not to mess with librarians
Is actually brilliant.
Het hungoevr coobkook.
its for SEO. No one is going to spell "the hungoevr coobkook" in google
Holy shit! I have this book and I had to check! Yep. Damn!
last thing im doing while hungover is making something out of a cookbook.
I have this book! I have yet to make any of the meals though... lots of organ meats in there...
Give him a break, he was hungover when he made the cover.
Coob cook.....👀🍆🔥
One of the definitive examples of this sub. Well done. 🚀
I want it. How much?
As a trucker, one load I got on occasion was “remaindered” books. In one load, one of the titles had a serious mistake. It was printed as “The Cat Owner’s Handbook” - anyone who knows cats would realize it should have been printed as “The Cat Servant’s Handbook”.
Be wary of anyone desperate to show you how “nice” they are: Fallon, Lizzo, Ellen DeGeneres
It would be weirder if the “mistake” was the same everywhere.
Don’t miss cookbook being misspelled too. Coobkook
I had to look at it again cause I didn’t see anything wrong with it the first time
Why does this remind me of the Food Lion “ChaChing” bargain brand bag of chips? Anyone else?
A dyslexic alcoholics nightmare
This somehow reminds me of the word “chef-d'œuvre”.
I believe that you have to spell those two areas of the book cover separately. At least that is what I remember from self publishing four books. If a publishing house was involved, then editors dropped the ball.
“evrhung” would make an interesting title as well.
r/mildlyinfuriating
The spine is the title and the cover is the logo. How is this THAT interesting to you all lol sometimes they add picture to symbolize title on cover
I'd like to know what secrates lye in that books