For This Round, a Cheroot Goes to the Winner
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Last Saturday’s editions of The Times and the Herald Examiner revealed that one journal is more orthographically proficient than the other.
In The Times, Gordon Edes’ usage of a word relating to a tooth problem was correctly spelled: abscessed. Similarly, in his Dodger notes, Ken Gurnick of the Herald Examiner, in reference to the same dental malady, erringly spelled it abcessed.
For this round, a cheroot to the winner, Gordon Edes.
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