'Etymology'

While you take in hand to school others, and to teach them by what name a whale-fish is to be called in our tongue, leaving out, through ignorance, the letter H, which almost alone maketh up the signification of the word, you deliver that which is not true.

- Richard Hackluyt*, Principal Navigations (in Melville, Moby-Dick: 'Etymology - Supplied by a Late Consumptive Usher to a Grammar School')

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* wonderfully misspelled by Melville, in all his sanctimony

Correctivist

Internote

My Samsung Galaxy tablet (still?) prefers that 'the internet' be spelt with a capital I.

Like, as in Skynet?

Discuss.

Spellcheque?

Landsman is at the wheel of a 1971 Chevrolet Chevelle Super Sport, which he bought ten years ago in an access of nostalgic optimism...

- Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen's Union