The Word A Day column is heavenly, even if you don't make a living with words like I used to.
This week's words included heterography, meaning a different spelling from the one in current use. In the beginning, spelling was a free-for-all.
Word A Day: "Each writer spelled words in his own way, trying to spell them phonetically. By the 19th century, most words had a single 'official' spelling, as a consensus, not by the diktat of a committee."
So, our White House Bully Boy is a leading practitioner of heterography.
Just don't expect him to spell it.
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Watching a riot in downtown Reno on TV last night was much better than being in the middle of it, trying to make sense of a situation that had none. Ah, the benefits of switching from newspaper reporter to wire editor.
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