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To: Bill Ulrich who wrote (463)	1/4/1998 6:42:00 AM
From: Bill Ulrich	Respond to of 4711

&#133and no, this isn't my bad grammar: &#147&#133find all of the`effs'they tend to stick out.&#148 It is SI's 15&#150minute editing window making me look silly. -MrB R E V I S E \| E D I T \| T I M E - O U T

To: Bill Ulrich who wrote (463)	1/4/1998 1:29:00 PM
From: David Lawrence	Respond to of 4711

Aw, you publishing types have an answer for everything. I'll grant you that more mature (versus wizened, which does indeed imply wrinkles) readers do indeed "gather clumps" of words. Nonetheless, I still say that we tend to discard the lesser adverbs and prepositions when reading silently, and sometimes when writing. When reviewing letters and memoranda that I wrote in months and years past, I'll often find that I omitted such words, and failed to catch it in proof. Changing subjects, my most common faux paux is using than for then. It probably stems from growing up in Texas, where both words are pronounced the same and have two syllables. Sad, but true.