czeski błąd

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Literally, “Czech error”. Of unclear origin, although often explained as either of the following:

from the fact that several Czech words look like their Polish counterparts with two letters transposed; compare, for example, Polish karp and Czech kapr (“carp”);
from the fact that Czech numerals can be written in two ways (i.e. twenty-three can be written as dvacet tři or as třiadvacet), making it plausible for someone less familiar with the language to misinterpret the order of the digits.

czeski błąd m inan

(idiomatic, printing) switching of letters in printed text
popełnić/zrobić czeski błąd ― to make a letter switch
- 2014, Krzysztof Koziołek, Bóg nie weźmie w tym udziału, Manufaktura Tekstów, →ISBN, page 145:
  I jeszcze 21 lipca, może to czeski błąd?
  And also, it's the 21st of April, maybe there was a letter flipflop?

Declension of czeski błąd