Schoolbook Blunders

Schoolbook Blunders

• Janko had a hat on his head with a battered saucepan for a brim.

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• Bolesław Prus did not sleep for several nights, and then The Doll was born.

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• The curious faces of the spectators sat in the stands.

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• Gerwazy had a penknife and three holes in his nose.

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• A mosquito is a mammal because it sucks human blood.

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• People do not live in the mountains, only highlanders do.

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• Mickiewicz and Maryla had a direct train in the summerhouse.

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• Before accepting baptism, our tribes behaved like normal people.

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• He promised to notify him of his own death.

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• To put it figuratively, electrons in a conductor butt heads.

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• A gorge is a tunnel without a ceiling.

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• Grażyna differed from a man only in that she was a woman.

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• Rocks are real estate on the ground.

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• Magda came from a cottage boarded up with planks.

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• Robinson, in soaked shorts and with a knife behind his belt, lived alone for several years.

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• The Sisyphean Labors is truly heavy reading.

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• Sadness and poverty showed through her clothes.

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• Political and family affairs alike were hidden beneath Father Robak's cassock.

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• Staś and Nel had no mothers, so they met very quickly.

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• Three shots rang out, and a bear.

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• Debauchery flourished in the inn, but so did patriotism.

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• Pan Tadeusz came into the world during an unhappy marriage.

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• Kraków is a beautiful city, especially on postcards.

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• Mice are classed as rodents, as proved by their eating Popiel.

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• Thanks to Telimena, Tadeusz learned how to wield a weapon.

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• After Urszulka's death, Kochanowski wrote beautiful trills.

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• Armed with household equipment and farming accessories, the peasants set off against the nobility.

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• The lyrical subject died of tuberculosis.

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• If King Solomon lived in our times, he would not be wise either.

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• The final court watches over the proper rulings of district and provincial courts.

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• Thanks to harakiri, the Japanese could show their true inner selves.

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• The most important stages of a man's education are school, the army, and marriage.

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• An opera was often titled after its author's beloved woman, or after an item of her clothing, such as Halka.

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• Dead Souls is an expression of Gogol's outrage. As if trafficking in living people were not enough, now they trade in the dead as well.

Compiled by

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