99 Year Old Mistake

An Australian physics professor has prompted the Oxford Dictionary to correct a 99-year-old mistake after he discovered that the definition of 'siphon' was wrongly stated since 1911.Stephen Hughes, a lecturer at Queensland University of Technology, claims he discovered the mistake while he was writing a paper on how siphons work.According to the 'H...

An Australian physics professor has prompted the Oxford Dictionary to correct a 99-year-old mistake after he discovered that the definition of 'siphon' was wrongly stated since 1911.Stephen Hughes, a lecturer at Queensland University of Technology, claims he discovered the mistake while he was writing a paper on how siphons work.According to the 'H...