Hey, this from my brother-in-law, Burl: An interesting fact that you probably already know….Spellcheck wants to change “michellerichmond” to “malnourishment”. Has there been a word coined to describe such spellcheckisms? You know, like Jon Carroll calls the way you heard a song lyric, compared to the actual lyric, a “mondigreen”. The story goes, he’d heard this song that his mother used to sing about “Lady Mondigreen”. It was years later that he figured out that the song was an Irish folk ballad and they were saying “…he died, and they laid him on the green.” Not Lady Modigreen Anyway,...
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