15 Annoying Mistakes You Never Noticed In Mad Men

1. Lane€™s Dictionary

Arriving in season 3 to oversee the finances of Sterling Cooper, Lane Pryce brought a few things from Britain over to the States with him. One of those was a futuristic dictionary. In one of the most infamous anachronisms of the show€™s run, the bookshelf in Lane€™s office displays the three-volume Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. This edition wasn€™t published until 1987, meaning it appeared on Lane€™s shelves 24-years too early. How did this come to be? The Twitter account of Lane Pryce may give us some answers€

Regarding my office library, I was asked to hold onto those books by a nervous young man named McFly. http://bit.ly/WiTRG #madprops

€” Lane Pryce (@lanepryce) August 25, 2009
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