[Elecraft] Weird or wierd - OT

[Dauer, Edward]

When the IBM Selectric was the top of the line in the 60s and 70s, a rumor went around that there was available on the aftermarket a character ball with a "blur key."  It would imprint on the page what looked like an accidental illegible smudge.  To avoid making an embarrassing mistake with the i and the e, one could just hit the blur key twice.  I don't know if the rumor was true or baloney (bologna?), but it was a classy idea.

Meanwhile, eerie is often a good substitute for weird.  I would have suggested bizarre but who can remember how many Zs and Rs there are?  Sort of like Cincinnati . . . . 

Ted, KN1CBR    
    
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    Message: 18
    Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 10:15:57 -0700
    From: Fred Jensen <k6dgw at foothill.net>
    To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
    Subject: Re: [Elecraft] New wierd K3s behavior
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    Decades ago, a good friend who was a Royal Lao Air Force officer asked 
    me if I would assist his daughter with English in preparation for her 
    secondary school admissions examination.? I realized early on that I was 
    heading for failure while we were on formation of plurals ... dog/dogs, 
    cat/cats, person/people, goose/geese, moose/moose, sheep/sheep, ...? The 
    Lao language has no plurals so we were starting from scratch.? It was at 
    least an order of magnitude harder than O Chem and we hadn't even gotten 
    to "i before e ... or not, you choose."
    
    73,
    
    Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
    Sparks NV DM09dn
    Washoe County