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Old 07-23-2012, 09:53 PM   #25
Andrew H.
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I worked for many years in the UK's nuclear power industry, and we used to regularly get protesters outside our site. One particular protest group, who used to turn up on quite a regular basis, always amused me because they had a large sign that said on it "WIMMIN AGAINST NUKES" .
That's intentional, though. Like womyn - they don't want to have any "men" in them.

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Sometimes the improvements cause more problems than anything else too. I remember reading about how a lot of the errors in the LOTR came about. The publishers would change spelling on words because they assumed that Prof. Tolkien had misspelled the word. We're still paying for that blunder today I believe.
Still, I'm sure the MS wasn't free of errors...and can you imagine having the job of proofreading LOTR?

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