On Wed, 7 Oct 1998 SiteMistic@xxxxxxx wrote:
|In a message dated 10/7/98 8:57:02 AM Central Daylight Time,
|williams@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
|
|<< Remember the old joke about "punishment will continue until behavior
| improves"? Well, I've noticed a recent spate of misspellings of a word
| intimately connected with photography. So, here it goes again...
|
| "Lens" is spelled with ONE 'e'. >>
|
| Well, pardner, you ain't ne'er lived in East Texas if this bothers you. We
|make EVERYTHING two syllables. None of this Yankee "lens" for us'un. Len'se
|it's gonna be. Us photo graphers generally say le-ens, though. The rest just
|say, "what's that thang on 'da front of that there picture box."
HHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE HHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWW!!!! :-)
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