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Categories: Adages, Copy editing, Articles with short description
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Muphry's law  Bell's First Law of Usenet  Gaudere's Law  Greenrd's Law  Hartman's Law of Prescriptive Retaliation
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Muphry's law is an adage that states: "If you write anything criticizing editing or proofreading, there will be a fault of some kind in what you have written." Wikipedia
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Muphry's law is an adage that states: "If you write anything criticizing editing or proofreading, there will be a fault of some kind in what you have written." Wikipedia
An adage that states: "If you write anything criticizing editing or proofreading, there will be a fault of some kind in what you have written." Wikidata
A humorous adage stating that any written criticism of another writer's editing or proofreading will itself contain an error. Wiktionary
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proverb
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Murphy's Law
NAMED AFTER
Murphy's Law
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Bell's First Law of Usenet, Gaudere's Law, Greenrd's Law, Hartman's Law of Prescriptive Retaliation, Hartman's Law of Prescriptivist Retaliation, Law of Prescriptive Retaliation, Law of Prescriptivist Retaliation, McKean's law, Mephry's law, Moen's law of correctness, Muphry, Muphry's Law, Muphrys law, Muphry’s law, Naruki's Law, Skitt's law, Tober's lor

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