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From: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
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Subject: Re: "(sp?)" considered wimpy.
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> Just a comment on the above remark.  I, for one, have noticed that a large
> number of misspelled words are of the ordinary, vanilla type (eg., "flys",
> "recieve", "wierd", etc.), errors that are the result of years of wrong
> usage, and of which the writer may not even be conscious.

Well then, you're not going to stick a (sp?) after it, are you?
I would comment that such people are, in my book, illiterate.

Along the same lines, I just saw a headline in the paper that
used principal when principle was obviously what was meant. So
disappointing.
-- 
 This is my opinion, I guess.

 Phil Ngai (408) 749-5720
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