Jim Bob;
Y'all keep comin back, hear.
george
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."
>
> Jim Bob from East Texas
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