Sad comment on the state of affairs these days... and the fact that this is a ten-year-old newspaper article proves that this is nothing new but has been going on for for decades.
According to an old Ripley's Believe It or Not entry, a student in a spelling bee circa 1890 spelled 'coffee' as 'kauphy', remarkable in that it contained none of the correct letters.
Sad comment on the state of affairs these days... and the fact that this is a ten-year-old newspaper article proves that this is nothing new but has been going on for for decades.
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According to an old Ripley's Believe It or Not entry, a student in a spelling bee circa 1890 spelled 'coffee' as 'kauphy', remarkable in that it contained none of the correct letters.
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