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From: "T. Alan Russell" <>
Subject: Re: America Alone
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 08:07:00 -0500


The only thing omitted from this story is that Dan was reading the
telepromter when he gave the spelling proving that he could read.

At 06:59 PM 4/6/1999 -0800, William Nakia Yelland wrote:
>A few years back, a man -- who went by the title "President of the
>United States of America." -- went to a school one day with media
>cameras watching. A student came up to spell "potatoe" but instead
>spelled it "potato." Mr. Quayle (the man mentioned) corrected the
>student and said that it should have been spelled "potatoe." Well, the
>media went wild! Mr. Quayle was marked as a man who could not spell
>because he mispelled "potatoe." All the dumb jokes soon followed in
>masse. Now to some, this was quite perplexing... He had spelled it
>correctly as far as they were concerned. Well it seems the modern
>American spelling lacks that 'e' at the end, which kind of puts me out
>as an American because I learned it with the "e.' I also learned the
>follwing as is : valour, honour, labour. Of course, Americans spell
>those now without the "u." Well... I've struck out further on my own, I
>use metric and celcius most of the time like the rest of the world.
>Hmmm... I'm not sure about these fellow Americans of mine -- more and
>more they seem to be a bit backward. Anyone fellow Americans agree? Or,
>am I truely alone on this one?
>
>
>WNY

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