It's not a frequency oddity, but for numbering oddity of the century
(maybe of all time) I nominate Duodecimal Bulletin.  We no longer have
it at our library, but they used the base 12 number system (as I
remember, our conventional nos. 10-11 were replaced by symbols, then 10
= (our) 12, 11 = 13 (12+1), 12 = 14 (12+2), etc.

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Can't resist chiming in on this. I had one recently that has a stated
frequency followed by "now published whenever". I'd loved to include
that in 310.

Selina

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[mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Wayne Jones
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My favourite is one from years ago that I would have liked to have
included in the bibliographic record, as the publisher sincerely
intended it as the serial's frequency. It was a religious publication of
some kind that was to be issued "As God allows."

Wayne

At 08:07 AM 2006-01-13, you wrote:
>A little serials humor for a Friday:
>
>ALCTS gives out awards each year for the "worst serial title change".
As far as I know, there's no similar award for numbering, but I see a
lot of numbering problems each year that are pretty amusing (in
retrospect).
>
>The one on my desk right now is The American Enterprise (ISSN
1047-3572). Here's what it said on its masthead in 2005:
>
>Jan./Feb. through July/Aug. issues: "Published eight times per year"
>Sept.: "published monthly"
>Oct./Dec.: "published ten times per year"
>
>How many issues did it actually publish in 2005? Seven.
>
>Anyone have other good recent examples?
>
>:-) Bob Persing
>

>

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