Monday, October 31, 2005

Why is it the White Sox and not the White Socks?

Slate explains why.

Basically it's that the letter X is just so damn cool.

And also, there was a real spelling-reform movement that claimed "millions of dollars were wasted on printing unnecessary letters." No, really!
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2 comments:

  1. Anonymous10:02 PM

    "Unneccessary" has an unnecessary letter itself.

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  2. Anonymous11:21 AM

    The history of the simplified spelling movement:
    http://www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk/spell/histsp.html

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