Etymology

Muphry's law

Today it means: A humorous adage stating that any written criticism of another writer's editing or proofreading will itself contain an error. Full definition →

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The story

Deliberate misspelling of Murphy's law, an adage which states that if anything can go wrong, then it will.

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