Two generations later, enter Webster, who returned fire with a dictionary that nixed all those extra Ks, along with a lot of U's and Qs (think "colour" and "barque").
What interests me most about pieces like today's Times op-ed is not the content but the news hook. The author found in this week's National Spelling Bee a hook to discuss Johnson and Webster, who related directly to the op-ed writer's book, which he plugs in the tagline.
Still, book-promotion envy aside, I never knew that Noah's story had such a good arck.
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Did you notice the date on the article is October 10, 2010?
Curious.
Freaky! No, I didn't notice that. That's especially funny to me because it's my job to catch stuff like that. But when I'm reading for content, I always miss those typos.
The Times has scaled back its staff a lot. I don't know for sure that they've cut back on proofreaders, but it's probable.
Makes this kind of mistake a lot more likely.
Still, it's a weird one. Good catch.
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