Comments on: World History According to Students

By: Kami K. Fabulous

Kami K. Fabulous — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:27:21 +0000

Hilarious!!! My head hurts from laughing so hard and crying. Gotta love college students!

By: leo

leo — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:12:30 +0000

im using this in my english classes to encourage my classmates not to make mistakes anymore. we study english as a foreign language and often make the same mistakes as native speakers do.

By: Dave in UK

Dave in UK — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:58:40 +0000

When I was at school in the 1950s we performed a play by Walter Carruthers Sellar and Robert Julian Yeatman, called “1066 and All That” ~ A Memorable History of England, comprising all the parts you can remember, including 103 Good Things, 5 Bad Kings and 2 Genuine Dates”. The similarity of this play and the book from which it was taken in 1930 to the contents of this History page above is remarkable. Some schools must have used “1066 and All That” as their History Text Book! haha!

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.