misdates

• “If someone misses the date in the corner or if there is a software error that misdates it, old news can get circulated as if it is new news.”

  Give My Regards to President Hoover « Whatever

• “And what about Hitler's famous January 30, 1939 “prophecy” of extermination; a speech delivered before England had guaranteed Poland, before the commencement of hostilities, before American entry into the war Buchanan mentions, though doesn't analyze, the speech in his book; he also misdates the address.”

  Daimnation!: Hitler's "prophecy"

• “Or perhaps he means the letter to John Murray in which Byron reports (and misdates) Shelley's death.”

  Accident

• “The critic, misreading the evidence, misdates all these books, and so the argument means nothing to him.”

  Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1

• “’ A. Text and title from B, which corrects four lines, and misdates ’81.”

  Notes

• “Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, which misdates his death by two years; most of the chief medieval historians, WILLIAM OF MALMESBURY, MATTHEW PARIS etc., and later standard works, LINGARD etc.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip

• “On her public entry (which Knox misdates by a month) her idolatry was rebuked by a pageant of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.”

  John Knox and the Reformation

• “Carlyle's anxious Letters to Mrs. Carlyle, whose long delay in writing to him he mistakenly attributed to unwillingness to write instead of to the real cause, illness and want of the proper postal address; he misdates some of Mrs. Carlyle's Letters, gives garbled extracts from others, and entirely suppresses some very important ones.”

  New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle

• “A. Text and title from B, which corrects four lines, and misdates '81.”

  Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published

• “Dating note: Southey misdates this letter as 3 April 1791, but the postmark and the events described confirm the year as 1793.”

  Letter 46

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