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Old 07-25-2008, 10:31 PM   #8
charlene
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Default Re: CBC saluting Folk Festival season

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Originally Posted by Auburn Annie View Post
The "I" looks like abbreviated Spencerian style; Palmer and Spencer were competing penmanship styles taught in the early part of the last century. As with so many other learned skills, we create our own distinct writing style as we grow up; too bad penmanship is going the way of buggy whips. Before long, no one will write in longhand - they'll just text everything to/from cell phones and computers.

I wouldn't mind so much if folks could just SPELL properly. This morning there was a news item on TV about the big tear in the fuselage of the Qantas plane en route to London. The headline read "WHOLE IN SIDE OF PLANE" and I'm yellling at the screen "it's HOLE, H-O-L-E, you morons!" I fear it's a losing battle, alas.
glad to see 'losing' and not 'loosing' as I so often see....
lol

are you sure you didn't yell ' i't HOLE, H-O-L-E, you arse-wholes! ??? (which is what I would have been yelling - albeit with proper spelling..)
lol

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