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today .... Marx for Mary
A senior Justice Department official has instructed more than a half dozen U.S. attorney’s offices to draft plans to investigate a group funded by George Soros, the billionaire Democratic donor whom President Trump has demanded be thrown in jail. The official’s directive, a copy of which was viewed by The New York Times, goes as far as to list possible charges prosecutors could file, ranging from arson to material support of terrorism. The memo suggests department leaders are following orders from the president that specific people or groups be subject to criminal investigation...
Once, when typing a medical association's newsletter, I typed 'pubic' instead of 'public' and it ended up being a pretty funny sounding article.
There is such a thing as proofreading. Check it out.Holy Cannoli!
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A senior Justice Department official has instructed more than a half dozen U.S. attorney’s offices to draft plans to investigate a group funded by George Soros, the billionaire Democratic donor whom President Trump has demanded be thrown in jail. The official’s directive, a copy of which was viewed by The New York Times, goes as far as to list possible charges prosecutors could file, ranging from arson to material support of terrorism. The memo suggests department leaders are following orders from the president that specific people or groups be subject to criminal investigation...
and to my horror the spell-checker replaced inflation with inflammation.
Now I'm looking for another spell checker, one that is reliably MAGA.
MAGA.
national hymen for national hymne![]()
today .... Marx for Mary
It's time to eat, Grandma.
It's time to eat Grandma.
Proper punctuation: The life you save could be Grandma's.
nro idd I ...I hvae never made a typo.
Post reported to OED.For some reason (clumsy fingers?) I will frequently hit the semicolon key when I meant to use an apostrophe. Like it;s instead of it's. Most of the time I will catch it and correct but it still slips through sometimes.
Post reported to OED.
Watch it!
Oxford English Dictionary.Dictionary?
thought soOxford English Dictionary.
You like trivia. The longest definition in the OED was the verb 'set'. It had 430 senses, requiring a 60,000-word definition spread over 24 pages.thought so![]()
what about .... put?You like trivia. The longest definition in the OED was the verb 'set'. It had 430 senses, requiring a 60,000-word definition spread over 24 pages.
That word was overtaken by 'run' which has 654 senses.
There is such a thing as proofreading. Check it out.
because of Marx?Watch it!