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Wednesday 31 December 2014
Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 159
This blissful mangle comes via Ryan McCarthy:
Source: Philip’s World Atlas, 2006 Edition (London: Philip’s, 2005), p. 48
As Ryan says, ‘Who knew a book could be frightened?’
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