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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Paul Viapiano who wrote (1046)	4/3/1998 11:13:00 AM
From: Sowbug	Respond to of 4711

"I went over John's house today." Welcome, Paul, You have a cool family name, but my brain wants to insert some "ll"s in between the diphthongs. I knew a guy named Villalpando -- maybe that's why I'm subconsciously spell-checking the word. My sister worked in Manhattan for a few years (we're Californians) and it wasn't so much the clipped syntax that drove her crazy, but the missing "t"s in pronunciations, like in "button," which came out "buh un." Elements of Style (Strunk & White) isn't a grammar book, but it does try to teach a wonderfully pithy writing style, and your head will spin when you see how the author is able to say more with less. Plus, it's cheap.