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Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Criminal Sentence 264: Speling Problem

A teaser from Yahoo! this morning:

"What really killed Mozart?

After years of guesswork, researchers believe they now know the answer.
An 18th-cenury 'epidemic'"

I've heard of penury, but not cenury. Guess they forgot to check their spelling.

And what did off the composer?

"Strep throat may have killed Mozart: study"

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Speling? Shame on you!

The Sentence Sleuth said...

Did it on "perpose!!" silly.