[Mishmash] When Wrong Is Right

[William Smyth]

> When I was a teenager, one of the local newspapers had a tradition . . .
> they would pay anyone who found a spelling or grammatical error in the
> newspaper $5.00. And that was the New York Daily News . . . not known as a
> literary leader!....
>
> The other day I was sitting in a hotel room watching the Weather Channel,
> and they reported (complete with graphics) that 37% of the state of 
> Georgia
> was under "Extreme Droute" conditions, and 77% under "Severe" droute
> conditions....
> Makes one want to vote for a law requiring an IQ test before letting 
> people
> breed!
>
> Hugh

Er, I thought the spelling was "drought".  What about that error?

Bill in SC