the professor misattributed Robert Burn's famous line to Shakespeare
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I apologize if I have misrepresented or misattributed anyone's remarks.
There's a long, vaguely dishonorable list of pop hits that have been commonly misattributed.
I do not believe they exist, and Maxwell must have misattributed the photographs she has in mind.
After the first one, I realized that either there were two DJ's with the same name or the first one had been misattributed.
The furniture made in Maine during the Federal period has long been overlooked or misattributed.
There's been all these quotes that have been misattributed in other newspapers, and they said they were setting the record straight.
Talking to oneself, for example, happens continually: an auditory hallucination can be proven to be a sufferer talking to themself, but misattributing the source.
In January, this newspaper reported that they failed to double-check their evidence prior to publication and misattributed other evidence to them.
Originally, I had misattributed those comments to Aaron.
While this is the first example I've seen of a story getting picked up by a major online news source and being misattributed in this way, the underlying practice is quite common on hip hop news sites.
Based on the confusing wording of credits at the close of the film, we misattributed Ruell's work to Ferro.
It suggests that under some circumstances people can misattribute the uplifting work that their brains have done to a fictitious external source.
It has been pointed out to me that the lyric quoted at the top of this page has been misattributed to The Doors, when in fact it is from a song written by Kurt Weill - Bertolt Brecht's song-writing alter-ego.
Due to an editing error, an earlier version of this article misattributed the viewpoint in the final paragraph.
Famous people (especially famous men) tend to get notable sayings retrospectively misattributed to them.
This poem has outshone all the other works of the poet to whom it was misattributed.
At least I hope it was he, though I'm sure Merton, who invented many wonderful jokes himself, would have been delighted if the credit for it turned out to be misattributed to him.
However, there is also a danger of assuming that everything reminiscent of Van Gogh's style in the family collection must be by him - so works that he had acquired from friends have sometimes been misattributed.
It's much less amusing that the quote was mangled and misattributed.
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misattribution
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Thanks to the many readers who wrote to correct my earlier misattribution of the story; I was juggling a few too many balls today.
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Our data show that this approach could be seriously misleading and could result in the misattribution of falling admission rates to an intervention because the admissions would probably decline anyway.
They revealed a host of misunderstandings, including patients thinking doctors had information when they didn't, doctors thinking patients understood something when they didn't, and misattribution of side effects.
But what I really want to do is show that Shakespeare had important counterparts in music, where misattributions abound.
Van Gogh usually signed only his most important works, or sometimes those given to friends, so the vast majority are unsigned, increasing the problem of misattributions.