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{il y a Bourbon et Bourbon = there are Bourbons and Bourbons (i.e., they're all the same); "What is bred in the bone...." = a possibly deliberate misquotation of "It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone" from John Heywood, "Proverbes", Part II, Chapter VIII (1546)}

Pope Francis faces enough troubles without also having to put up with media misquotations.

This month, also as he published Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations, a book in which he collected and updated many of the posts from his site and offers new theories on how misquotations form.

There are some misquotations. In chapter 1, for instance, a long passage is attributed to Deleuze when it is actually by Rosi Braidotti.

The "hollow and baseless" claims of Gaegae in an interview with the Lebanese TV (MTV) on Wednesday against the Islamic Republic of Iran, including his misquotations of Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, are categorically rejected, read the statement.

It is when we utter a conviction deeply felt and long held that we are betrayed to verbal slips, misquotations, or quotations misapplied" (237).

A closer look at a few of Curnow's 'accurate misquotations', his 'quotations lifted from / life into a stony text' ('Moules a la Mariniere') should serve to clarify his technique.

Fabrizio Ravanelli: A much loved cult hero for three months but he never scored away after November as the goals dried up to be replaced by sulky strops, misquotations and doom-laden predictions of relegation before skulking off (with the fixtures and fittings) a year later.

I will do my best to correct the record and ensure that my misquotations and mistakes are fixed.

More serious are concerns about misquotations, errors in translation, and misleading use of sources.

(Unfortunately, this essay also contains a number of misquotations from the play.) More satisfying is Christa Jansohn's account of German productions of Twelfth Night, which offers thicker descriptions of the stagings she discusses, and also introduces many interesting ideas and problems of performance itself--including the "recent tendency of contemporary theatre to replace traditional character concepts [with] visual appeals" (212).