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Errant Spelling

  • Posted by: Patrick James
  • on September 9, 2008 at 3:34 pm

 

Yesterday, Kottke linked to this fantastic video of 102-year-old Ed Rondthaler speaking about the spelling inconsistencies of the English language. It’s Indo-Germantastic!

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