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Article: If you're going to use youse, be sure yez spell it correctly.(Wood on Words)(incorrect spelling and grammar in news articles)(Column)
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- Communication World
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- October 1, 1998
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'Hi Alden," cheerily chirped Sheila Foster at the top of her Aug. 10 e-mail dispatched from Calgary.
"We Canadians take a lot of flak about our forest industry so here's a good one for you...(the 8/8) Calgary Herald ran a story passed along from one Julian Beltrame from the Canadian Press, Washington. Writing on the (yawn) latest Billygoat Billygate he writes of Monica Lewinsky:
"'But until her appearance, no one outside the grand jury has had the advantage of listening to the timber of her voice and looking into the steadiness of her eyes to assess believability.'
"Well, now, maybe it was the timber of Monica's voice that felled the ...