True Love
Last Hallowe'en I wrote this and now's as good a time as any to read it again, if you've a mind to. The fight's lost, anyway: Googling "hallowe'en" gives 1.72 million hits, and "halloween -hallowe'en" (which is to say pages that contain the first spelling but not the second) 281 million. I can see which way the wind blows. But I'm still going to insert that apostrophe until the day I die.
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In Part Two of our continuing series on comic-strip typos (one a year, it seems), we have the following exhibit:
(It's from Carol Lay's Salon.com comic WayLay.)
"Aphrodisiac" is the correct spelling: it's from the Greek goddess of love and beauty, Aphrodite, who no doubt was glad to give her name to a potion which sparks sexual arousal.
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In Part Two of our continuing series on comic-strip typos (one a year, it seems), we have the following exhibit:
(It's from Carol Lay's Salon.com comic WayLay.)"Aphrodisiac" is the correct spelling: it's from the Greek goddess of love and beauty, Aphrodite, who no doubt was glad to give her name to a potion which sparks sexual arousal.
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