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Sunday, August 31, 2014

The joys of English are many ...


George Mathews, governor of Georgia in the late eighteenth century, once famously spelled coffee kaughphy.

The picky among my readers will note that he used eight letters to spell a six-letter word -- and he managed not to use a single letter actually found in the correct version.

For more on Governor Mathews, visit this site.

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