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Subject: Spelling
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Date: Mon, 2-Jan-84 19:09:27 EST
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			An Orthographic Lament

		If an S and an I and an O and a U
			With an X at the end spell Su;
		And an E and a Y and an E spell I,
			Pray what is a speller to do?

		Then, if also an S and an I and a G
			And an HED spell side,
		There's nothing much left for a speller to do
			But to go commit siouxeyesighed.
							- Charles Follen Adams*
	
*  Espy, Willard R.  A Children's Almanac of Words at Play.  (New York:
	Clarkson N. Potter, Inc.). 1982.