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Language, never forget, is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling, and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines. – Bill Bryson, The Mother Tongue: English & How It Got That Way, 1990

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[A] man must be a d—d fool, who can’t spell a word more than one way. – Author unknown, 1855, anecdote from Jamestown Journal (Thanks, Garson O’To

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I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out. – Oscar Wilde, variously worded paraphrase, see quoteinvestigator.com/2015/10/25/c

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Every time you make a typo, the errorists win. – Author unknown

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