A new (to me, IAC) spelling rule

[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
> Wilson, if you can post the whole damn passage, why can't you tell us where it came from?
>

<http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/wp-comments-post.php>

It is or was the last comment on p.4 of the comments. There's an
earlier instance to which the NYT replies that it used the Webster's
New World Collegiate as its authority and notes that other comments
making the same complaint have been received.
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-Wilson
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