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Posted by Michelle Steiner on 10/15/94 11:36
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<warren.oates-D2D532.07325806012006@nr-tor01.bellnexxia.net>,
Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I don't hang out with them, but I know about them. There's another
> > group where the custom is to deliberately misspell "veracious" as
> > "voracious." I don't hang out with them either.
>
> Those are two quite different words, both correctly spelt (spelled).
> Are you sure those people are deliberately misspelling the first
> word? Maybe they're just stupid.
They are deliberately misspelling it. They go out of their way to use
it, and flame anyone who corrects them. That person either adapts or
leaves--or, like me, adapts and then leaves.
--
Stop Mad Cowboy Disease: Impeach the son of a Bush.
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