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A reference to the celebrated ‘famine’ error in the Corgi paperback edition of Good Omens. As many alert readers have noticed, the word ‘famine’ only has six letters. Terry says: “Oh, yeah. The famous seven-lettered six letter name. […] It's like this. In the original MS, it was six letters, because we can both count. And it was six letters in the Gollancz hardcover. And six letters in the Workman US hardcover. And became seven in the Corgi edition. No-one knows why.”