Sic!
In the excellent My Thoughts Be Bloody, Nora Titone quotes from various letters written by John Wilkes Booth to illustrate his thoughts and opinions. JWB was, even for a nineteenth-century guy, a casual speller, and Titone feels the need to (sic) his misspellings. Which is certainly fine, but I find it curious that she only sics those that don't involve apostrophes. For example,
Banks will fail. Familys [sic] ruined. Poor widow's who want their little mite to raise their children, will point to the famished stricken forms of their dear infants."Widow's" is as much a misspelling as "familys", no?
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At 1:13 PM, April 01, 2014
Barry Leiba had this to say...
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<-- Older Post ^ Home Newer Post -->He... Maybe Ms Titone thinks it's not; perhaps she suffers from apostrophitis (or should that be, perhaps, " apostrophiti's " ?).
Send her a link to Mr Language Person.
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