'Etymology'

While you take in hand to school others, and to teach them by what name a whale-fish is to be called in our tongue, leaving out, through ignorance, the letter H, which almost alone maketh up the signification of the word, you deliver that which is not true.

- Richard Hackluyt*, Principal Navigations (in Melville, Moby-Dick: 'Etymology - Supplied by a Late Consumptive Usher to a Grammar School')

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* wonderfully misspelled by Melville, in all his sanctimony

Nabokove

(he dropped the last letter on the tacite advice of a misprint in a catalogue)

- Vladimir Nabokov, The Original of Laura [an unfinished draft, in all fairness...]

Correctivist

A Nightmare on Melville House Street

Ulysses is a copy-editor’s nightmare and a printer’s incepted Freddy Kruger in a copy-editor’s nightmare.

- Josh Cook, in an column about the correction (or otherwise) of Joyce's 'typos'

Importance of grammatical accuracy

There's a particu'ly dark place in my heart

for wise-ass spelling-and/or-grammar-type jokes

that have mistakes in them.

[UPDATE: Hereafter, 'The Nth Circle'.]