Re: FWD: Gravity Probe B expletes it's Liquid Helium supply; Mission Director suddenly gets a case of Pat Flannery Lyricist Syndrome

On 2005-10-05, Pat Flannery <flanner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>Yes, your ancestors will be screaming unless you fix the spelling...
>
> Assuming you mean "whiskey", my spellcheck program shows either whiskey
> or whisky is acceptable.

See, they are both correctly-spelled words. "French" and "English" are
both correctly-spelled words, and they even describe quite similar
concepts in the broad sense of things. But they're not the same thing...

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-Andrew Gray
andrew.gray@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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