Hey, at least the author didn't misspell the first word in the title of their thesis: https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/handle/10822/52804... , http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/Birke.html

Strangely enough, which I didn't know when first writing this post, is that my aunt knows this lady as they overlapped during their tenure as professors at the university of warwick

That appears to be a journal article, not a thesis, and the title is correct in print:

http://www.jstor.org/stable/4236129

You haven't heard of sociobology? It's the study of social interaction patterns among oboe players.

I would like to make a tribology joke here, but I can't because it's from the Greek τρίβω, tribo, "I rub".

Spell-checkers are a huge distracting pain. My first official act on any kind of text-producing equipment is to turn the damned things off.

For typos and suchlike, I know I ought to run them manually before going public with anything - HN comments included - but usually I either forget or can't be bothered, because I know the real errors will drown in a sea of red underlining - me using strange words or simply writing in another language than the checker is set up to expect.