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Sarah Harkness's avatar

What a great story, thank you for teaching me something I never knew!

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Anne Cruise's avatar

Ritz fiddled the booze in the *cellars*, not the sellers. Twice: in the auditors' search, and in your closing remarks.

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ScottH's avatar

Sometimes my dyslexia ends up as a creative tool. Other times I hate it

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Maria (Linnesby essays)'s avatar

Great story, and fascinating! Thanks for it. And on “cellars” and “sellers” — some day thousands of years in the future, a linguist will be trying to figure out how written English was pronounced back in the 21st century. A typo like this, showing that these two words were pronounced alike in the writer’s inner ear, will be invaluable, and that scholar will be so grateful to whoever made it!

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ScottH's avatar

Thanks for being so “typo forgiving”!

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Martin Hayman's avatar

Great story!

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