On Thu 10 Jul 2008 02:43:10p, Julia Altshuler told us...

> aem wrote:
>> On Jul 10, 12:38 pm, "Nexis" > wrote:
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>>>"Julia Altshuler" > wrote in message
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>>>>I know that Earl Grey tea has some amount of caffien in it.
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>> For some reason, this bugs me. Most misspellings don't.
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>
> My American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, kept by my
> computer, lists both caffeine and caffein as acceptable spellings. I
> remembered that. Then I went and screwed up the "i before e except
> after c" exception. (I got Earl Grey right (not gray). Do I get points
> for that?) (And I'm one of the rare people on the list who usually gets
> its/it's correct. I think I deserve bonus points.)
>
>
> --Lia
>
>

You get points for Earl Grey because it's my veryt favorite. :-)

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