http://themoderatevoice.com/17315/the-secret-joy-of-the-four-letter-word/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:08:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://themoderatevoice.com/17315/the-secret-joy-of-the-four-letter-word/comment-page-1/#comment-150097 DLS Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:29:58 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/media/newspapers/17315/the-secret-joy-of-the-four-letter-word/#comment-150097 Errors are the first thing that catches the literate reader's eye, and disrupt the process of conveying information and ideas that literature is intended to do. ("Breaks the spell," complete with quotes, is how I also described this in a letter to a newspaper decades ago that I wrote in my youth published as "Please Use Correct English in the Newspaper.") There is no such word as "Howcum" and it raises additional questions as to why such a strange non-word would be used. Errors are the first thing that catches the literate reader's eye, and disrupt the process of conveying information and ideas that literature is intended to do. (“Breaks the spell,” complete with quotes, is how I also described this in a letter to a newspaper decades ago that I wrote in my youth published as “Please Use Correct English in the Newspaper.”) There is no such word as “Howcum” and it raises additional questions as to why such a strange non-word would be used.

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