Congratulations! You found a couple of trees. Let's see if you can look around and see the rest of the forest.
Actually he is right about that particular tree. I can sometimes type a word repeatedly and it looks right to me, since my head is overtaxed with a few ideas chomping at the bit. It was a lame misspelling.
But he wasn't writing about spelling. Not really.
Whenever anyone takes a deep breath and then challenges the "record" about great figues in our history, he runs the certain risk of stinging the fervent admirers of that figure.
Nervous was stung. But I can't take umbrage at him. If life runs true to form, he will now dig into the internet or the library, in order to "expose" my errors, and set the record straight.
I do not envy him for what is most likely to happen next. As he reads more and more, he will feel a cold chill begin to settle over him. Things he never suspected will brutally mock him from the pages in front of him.
As someone once said, "Shake a man's world hard enough... and the man falls apart, not the world..."
Been there; done that.
Afterwards a bruised and open-eyed conservative emerges reborn, and doubt begins to surface about all of that "other stuff" which he has taken for granted in the past. He has started upon the path. As you and I know- it's a long and rocky road.
Good luck, Nervous.
Thanks for the post, Egon.