this post was submitted on 15 Apr 2025
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[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 52 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Imogen is from a Shakespeare play, but it’s actually supposed to be Innogen but the first prints had a printing mistake and the name Imogen came into existence and the script with the error was reprinted for centuries. So everyone who is named Imogen is named after a typo.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 24 points 1 week ago

I love this fact. I'm going to accept it without doing any verification!