Google sometimes scans books upside-down by mistake...

Other common words as scanned upside-down:

"jxau" = "next" : http://www.google.com/search?q="jxau"&tbm=bks Image: http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=agwpOfP2zI4C&pg=RA4-PA82&...

"pire" = "and" : http://www.google.com/search?q="pire"&tbm=bks

via Ed Pegg, Jr.: http://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/16dt8i/se...;