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.
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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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