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...curious can see from Gallup's notes that in the much quoted line, "These fragments I have shored against my ruin," the words "shored against" originally read "spelt into." This was probably Eliot's own emendation, but other alterations are clearly the work of the man who looked over the master's shoulder. "Dogaral" (doggerel), noted Ezra on one passage, and Eliot humbly struck the offending words from his text. But Eliot sometimes balked. Ezra had condemned Eliot's description of a nightingale's "inviolable voice" as "too purty" (pretty), but Eliot seems to have...
SECOND VOICE: "Yes, President Pusey, that is right. And remember folks, 'education' is spelt: A Program for Harvard College...
...letters was as obsolete as Roman numerals. What was needed, he insisted, was an alphabet large enough to cover all the language's 40-odd basic sounds. Such absurdities as having f, ff, gh and ph represent one single sound would be eliminated. Phone could be spelt with three letters, Shaw with only two. "The saving," said Shaw, "would pay for half a dozen wars, if we could find nothing better to spend it on." Though Shaw never settled on any of the many alphabets proposed to him, he did favor one that would have made the sentence "From...
...catch a glimpse of Jesus was undoubtedly a fig tree.* The bulrushes that sheltered the infant Moses were almost certainly papyrus. Many plants that appear in the King James Version never grew in Palestine. Rye, for instance, is a cold-climate crop. The "rie" of the Bible is probably spelt, a primitive relative of wheat...
Contrary to the sanguine predictions of those who thought Governor Dever's signature on a recent red bill spelt the end of communist control legislation, Representatives McInerney and Keenan have proven that it takes more than one surrender to end the unspeakably traditional custom of presenting red bills every January...