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To: SunkenCiv

“Cnut the Great”

Dangerous typo territory...


8 posted on 09/19/2012 6:57:25 PM PDT by Rebelbase (The most transparent administration ever is clear as mud.)
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To: Rebelbase

Must have been a lot of laughs in that palace.


9 posted on 09/19/2012 7:03:25 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Rebelbase
Ha!

Many years ago I used to be a teacher. A topic of study with my class of 9 year olds involved Viking England and King Cnut. One particular boy wrote a great little essay on the venerable King for his homework, only he'd managed to transpose the 'n' and 'u' throughout the piece. His parents weren't English, so they hadn't noticed. It was actually otherwise neatly written and pretty good, so I gave him a good mark for it, after correcting the spelling with him.

We enjoyed passing it around in the staffroom ;-)

13 posted on 09/24/2012 9:02:29 AM PDT by Da_Shrimp
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