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From: "James Barnes" <>
Subject: Re: [ONTARIO-L] Spelling !
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 17:42:13 -0500


Very well said! I've received lots of useful information on these lists,
but lately they seem to become
side tracked. Some of the side tracking I've enjoyed. My mother was not
well educated and worked on genealogy for over 25 years. After she died, I
took over her unfinished work, and guess what? I learned to spell cemetery!
(I'm a very good speller!)

Let's let the cemetery issue "die". (Pun intented!)
Kathy Londo Barnes

-----Original Message-----
From: Beverley Gutenberg <>
To: <>
Date: Thursday, February 04, 1999 11:34 AM
Subject: Re: [ONTARIO-L] Spelling !

>I don't want to be flamed as I was once when I spoke about this very topic.
>I am an educator and I believe that good spelling is important but I also
>realize there are many reasons for misspelling words - infrequent use of
>them (other than us and Funeral Homes, ministers and monument makers, who
>uses cemetery or genealogy very often?), learning disabilities, poor typing
>skills ( I am a two or three finger typist myself!) and lack of education,
>to name a few. I ignore the mistakes because it is more important that
>people can communicate freely and share info with the others re the real
>purpose of this group - genealogy.
>Beverley Gutenberg searching in Nova Scotia and beyond:
>Hiltz Corbin Corkum Lantz Boutellier Melvin Griesterland
>Farrar Wilson Collicut
>Gerhardt Knickle Maillard Speiss Grange Fralich Schaffner
>Hoagg Collicut Laugenauer Brown
>In Ontario: Hunter Taylor McKee Anthony
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bronleewe Family <>
>To: <>
>Date: February 4, 1999 12:09 AM
>Subject: Re: [ONTARIO-L] Spelling !
>
>
>>What bothers me even more than seeing "cemetery" misspelled on the
>>mailing lists is checking Cemetery websites, and finding the word
>>misspelled even there!
>>
>>My husband's family owned a local cemetery until 1997, and has a monument
>>business, so we run into that all the time.
>>
>>Bonnie Bronleewe
>>--------------------------------------
>>
>>> On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Dave Cooper wrote:
>>>
>>> |The most commonly misspelled word.
>>> |
>>> | " CEMETERY "
>>> |
>>> |There is no such word as cemetary !
>>> |-------------------------------------
>>> |
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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