"really _hanous_ things"

[Wilson Gray]

In my youth, people didn't make this laughable kind of ridiculous spelling
error, because everybody knew that "heinous" was pronounced [hini at s]! ;-)
What a maroon!

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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