From: New on LLRX.com for June 21, 2004:
http://www.llrx.com/columns/grammar12.htm
Wisdom From the Grammar Goddess
Breaking the Spell
By Diane Sandford
"The English language has the worst system of spelling of any major
language. Since English spelling is so hard, it is used as a test, a rather
unfair test, of a person's carefulness and literacy. Check every word that
looks phunny."
- Robert C. Pinckert, Pinckert's Practical Grammar (Writer's Digest
Books, 1986), pages 220-23.
Sybil Finemel
Library Director MLIS.CIO.
Los Angeles CA
Contributor, lii.org, Librarians' Index to the Internet
http://lii.org/
Virtual Reference Desk Volunteer
24/7 Reference Librarian.
sfinemel@comcast.net
"Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe,
corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant,
steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in."
Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
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