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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."〔 The name is a deliberate misspelling of Murphy's law. Similar laws have also been coined, usually in the context of online communication, under names including Umhoefer's Rule (or Umhöfer's Rule), Skitt's Law, Hartman's Law of Prescriptivist Retaliation (or The Law of Prescriptive Retaliation),〔 The Iron Law of Nitpicking, McKean's Law. and Bell's First Law of USENET.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Is there a name for this law? (spelling nitpick will itself contain spelling mistake) )〕 Further variations state that flaws in a printed or published work will only be discovered after it is printed and not during proofreading,〔 and flaws such as spelling errors in a sent email will be discovered by the sender only during rereading from the "Sent" box. == History == John Bangsund of the Society of Editors (Victoria) in Australia identified Muphry's law as "the editorial application of the better-known Murphy's law" and set it down in 1992 in the Society of Editors Newsletter. The law, as set out by Bangsund, states that:
It goes on to say: Muphry's Law also dictates that, if a mistake is as plain as the nose on your face, everyone can see it but you. Your readers will always notice errors in a title, in headings, in the first paragraph of anything, and in the top lines of a new page. These are the very places where authors, editors and proofreaders are most likely to make mistakes.〔 Bangsund's formulation was not the first to express the general sentiment that editorial criticism or advice usually contains writing errors of its own. In 1989, Paul Dickson credited editor Joseph A. Umhoefer with the adage, "Articles on writing are themselves badly written", and quoted a correspondent who observed that Umhoefer "was probably the first to phrase it so publicly; however, many others must have thought of it long ago."〔 An even earlier reference to the idea, though not phrased as an adage, appears in a 1909 book on writing by Ambrose Bierce: In neither taste nor precision is any man's practice a court of last appeal, for writers all, both great and small, are habitual sinners against the light; and their accuser is cheerfully aware that his own work will supply (as in making this book it has supplied) many "awful examples". (''Write it Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults'' 1909) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Muphry's law」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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