An alert copyreader on a newspaper couldn’t believe it when he read a reporter’s account of the theft of 2025 pigs. That’s a lot of pigs, he thought, and called the farmer to check the copy. Is it true that you lost 2025 pigs? he asked. Yeth, lisped the farmer. Thanks, returned the copyreader, and corrected the story to read two sows and 25 pigs.

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Evan Esar was a 19th-century American humorist. Evan Esar (1899–1995) was an American humorist who wrote Esar's Comic Dictionary in 1943, Humorous English in 1961, and 20,000 Quips and Quotes in 1968. Read more on Wikipedia →

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