It's Jon, not John

[Michael Quinion]

> >John Lighter, in the _Random House Historical Dictionary of
> Should be Jon (for Jonathan).

Who was it who said that our good deeds are soon forgotten but that
our errors follow us for ever? It might, now I think about it, have
been me. I made that mistake in the newsletter, but corrected it on
the Web page at <http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-nit2.htm>. While
I am confessing my sins, on two other occasions I spelt Dr Lighter's
first name as "Jonathon", for which the most slender finger of blame
must be pointed at Jonathon Green's parents ...

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Michael Quinion
Editor, World Wide Words
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