Although true language gurus might get a headache from coming across too many spelling mistakes, it is not every day that a language error leads to a literal pain in the stomach. In Sweden, a proofreading error in a cake recipe in a local cooking magazine, led to food poisoning. "There was a mistake in a recipe for apple cake. Instead of calling for two pinches of nutmeg, it said 20 nutmeg nuts were needed," explained the chief editor of the magazine, Ulla Cocke. "We know that four adults ate one cake made from this recipe, and they didn't feel well," she said, adding that "this is obviously very regrettable. We publish 1 200 recipes each year, and of course there have been times when they've had a bit too much butter or too little flour, but we have never experienced anything like this before," Cocke said.