[TAG] English lesson of the day: affect/effect

[mso@oz.net]

Ben wrote:
> Then there are the words that
> are _made_ to be mispeled: "wierd", "tounge", "beleive", and so on - and
> words that damn near _no one_ (noone?) can spell without staring at a
> dictionary for a while (Mississippi, miscellaneous, Cincinnati,
> extraordinary).

I have some friends that work at an industrial/goth club called The Vogue,
and one day a promoter distributed some fliers that misspelled it The
Vouge.  We wondered how to pronounce that, then started calling it "The
Voozh" as a joke.

-- Mike