[Mishmash] When Wrong Is Right

[hgigante at optonline.net]

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-----Original Message-----
From: William Smyth <wsmyth at pbtcomm.net>

Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 07:20:59 
To:Mishmash <mishmash at mishmash.net>
Subject: Re: [Mishmash] When Wrong Is Right



> 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 



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