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12岁男孩给《大英百科全书》挑错英语美文12岁男孩给《大英百科全书》挑错英语美文ASchoolboywithafascinationforPolandandwildlifehasuncoveredseveralsignificanterrorsinthelatest-thefifteenth-editionoftheEncyclopaediaBritannica.LucianGeorge,12,apupilatHighgateJuniorSchoolinNorthLondon,wasdelvingintothevolumesonPolandandwildlifeinCentralEuropewhenhenotedthemistakes.ThefirstwastheassertionbytheinternationallyacclaimedreferencebookthatthesmalltownofChochim,inwhichtwobattleswerefoughtbetweenthePolesandtheOttomanEmpire,nowliesinMoldova."Wrong,"saidLucian,"ChochimisinUkraine."Carefullynotingthepageandcolumnofeacherror,theboycontinuedhisinvestigationsofthe32-volumetomelikeadiligentsub-editor.Involume25,page934,column2,theencyclopaediastatesthattheEuropeanbison,orwisent,maybefoundonlyintheBialowiezaForestinPoland,whichisalsoincorrect."TheEuropeanbisonalsoinhabitthesouthernmountainsofPoland,Russia,Lithuania,Belarus,Ukraine,easternSlovakiaandtheRomanianCarpathians,"Luciansaid.Farfrombeingtheschoolswot,Lucian,whospendshiseveningswatchingTheSimpsonsandchattingontheinternet,madethediscoveriesthankstohisinterestinhisPolishroots.Hismother,Elizabeth,isPolishandeveryyearhespendsamonthonafarminYamy,southwestPoland."HehasalwaysbeenfascinatedbyPolishhistory.Onthefarmhehaslongchatswithhis90-year-oldgreat-grandmotherabouthowshesurvivedthepogromsoftheNazis."Tendaysago,theEncyclopaediaBritannica,whichwasfirstissuedbytheSocietyofGentlemeninScotlandbetween1768and1777inEdinburgh,wrotetoLucian.AnitaWolff,thesenioreditor,thankedhimfor"pointingoutseveralerrorsandmisleadingstatements"andpromisedthatageographyeditorwasworkingona"majorrevisionofourPolandcoverage"andwouldmakethechangesasrequested.Inspiteofthemistakes,Luciansaidhestillconsideredtheencyclopaediatobethesinglebestsourceofinformation.Theerrors,too,whileserious,werearguablylessegregiousthanoneinthefirstvolume,whichdeclaredCaliforniatobeanisland.TheEncyclopaediaBritannicawasfoundedin1768inEdinburghbyColinMacfarquhar,aprint
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