Sante Fe, New Mexico?

[Joel S. Berson]

I guess I need to clue in the list:

My disturbance with the puzzle was not with the absence of the
diacritic, but with the puzzle's misspelling of the New Mexico
city.  It's the fifth letter of "Capital of New Mexico", not the last
letter, that crossed with "bachstroke".

Joel

At 8/12/2006 03:14 PM, you wrote:
>At 7:48 AM -0500 8/12/06, Barbara Need wrote:
>>Does one of these have a written accent? Otherwise, they look
>>identical on my machine.
>
>Well, they're both vowels, but different ones--even without diacritics...
>
>LH
>
>>
>>P.S. I find it is normal for crossword makers to ignore diacritics. B
>>
>>At 20:10 -0400 11/8/06, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>>>How to check spelling when one is creating a crossword puzzle:
>>>
>>>The Boston Globe crossword puzzle, August 11, crosses the last letter
>>>of "Composer's swimming technique?" (bachstroke) with the 5th letter
>>>of "Capital of New Mexico" (Sante Fe).
>>>
>>>Google hits:
>>>      Sante Fe New Mexico - 46,400,000
>>>      Santa Fe New Mexico - 43,500,000
>>>
>>>But:
>>>      "Sante Fe" New Mexico -      496,000
>>>      "Santa Fe" New Mexico - 38,300,000
>>>
>>>(For those who don't want to consult their Times Atlas of the World,
>>>it's Santa Fe, New Mexico, but Sante Fe, Argentina.)
>>>
>>>Joel
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