[GreenKeys] news wire photos and other silliness

[Richard Knoppow]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul A. Pennington" <paulpenn at knology.net>
To: "GreenKeys" <GreenKeys at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 5:07 PM
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] news wire photos and other 
silliness


>< Was astonished not long ago that the clerk
> < at one store had never heard of shellack.
>
> And some of us, older still, even know how to spell 
> "shellac".
>
> Paul Pennington
> Augusta, Georgia

    Well, that's probably why he didn't understand what I 
meant. Sometimes I forget to run the spell checker. OTOH, I 
wonder how many historical spellings of Shellac there are. 
Anyone who is too rigid about spelling needs to look at the 
history of the English language.


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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickburk at ix.netcom.com