Comments on: World History According to Students

By: Ranee Kaur Banerjee

Ranee Kaur Banerjee — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:18:42 +0000

I first came across a printed version of this in 1988 when I was a Graduate Teaching Assistant at UGA. Used as I was to correcting sophomore papers, I empathised with the compiler and vowed to start my own compilation of student bloopers.

Teaching my Business Communication class today on the other side of the world, I was suddenly reminded of Lederer’s History of the World and googled it.

Imagine my delight at finding it here! Thank you.

By: EFL/ESOL Teacher.

EFL/ESOL Teacher. — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:42:49 +0000

These mistakes are hilarious.I was trying to eat a clementine while reading them and I couldn’t! I was laughing so hard I nearly choked! I cannot believe how funny they are. I’m going to make sure other people see this. We all need a bit of laughter in our lives!

By: gabrielle

gabrielle — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:46:24 +0000

I’m 9 years and I know the real history-I can’t believe those college students’s mistakes!

By: James Bitters

James Bitters — Tue, 26 May 2009 04:45:25 +0000

lol. i copied one of those and gave it to my history teacher as an ancient rome assignment, and she gave me 78.5%
wtf? lol

By: adams

adams — Fri, 01 May 2009 17:23:56 +0000

chiefly noticeable in autumn when the apples fall off the trees…..kekekekekekeke

By: Tonya

Tonya — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:22:26 +0000

I plan on showing these to my students who do not understand how errors affect what they do! These are so funny that I laughed until I cried.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:10:41 +0000

I don’t want to see the 100 foot clipper that Sir Francis Drake used to circumcise the world.

By: Ashi

Ashi — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 05:08:21 +0000

Genius. Pure and utter genius.

By: Liz

Liz — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:40:34 +0000

I know people who would probably write things like this sadly; the McCormick Raper that does work for a thousand men that’s classic.

By: Ralph Rewes

Ralph Rewes — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:53:18 +0000

Hilarious. I laughed my head off reading history written by students. I can assure you, this is not an invention. I had classmates in high school that wrote things like that, not on purpose.