Archive for January, 2007

Things just never added up for me

Monday, January 29th, 2007

By BILL DUNCANThe View From Here
My sainted Presbyterian mother once said to me when I was in high school that she couldn’t understand how I could get an A plus on my report card for English and a D minus for arithmetic. For me it was easy. I am a word person [...]

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Misprint in newspaper recipes could be fatal

Monday, January 8th, 2007

By BILL DUNCANThe View From Here

Mark Twain swore he never read cookbooks for fear of dying of a misprint. After reading the contents of a website called "Regret the Error," a sort of War and Peace recitation of errors and corrections in the media in 2006, I would have to agree. [...]

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