#foulcase

WORD OF THE DAY Thursday, February 17, 2022 OED Word of the Day: foul case, n. A type case in which the pieces of type have been placed in the wrong compartments; the presence of these misplaced pieces as a source of typographical errors.

SENTENCE EXAMPLE "Both variants could only have been deliberately set, as foul-case is not a possible explanation." - 1999, Papers Bibliogr. Soc. Amer. 93 60

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Whereas Wm. Mitchell, formerly a Supervisor in the Excise, late of Leachlade in Gloucestershire, and since imprison’d in Glocester Goal, but releas’d in April, 1718, suppos’d to be gone for Yorkshire, aud [sic] has not since been heard of, and is thought to be dead. This is to give Notice, that if any one can give Intelligence where he died, shall have 5 Guineas Reward, to be paid by Mr. Corell in Bridgewater-square, London. N.B. He was a Pensioner of the Excise.