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On how it is spelled, how it is pronounced

Socks expert says grammar rules don't apply to names

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This made me think of a story with a Horse Cave connection.

Virginia Chaney, whose husband Carl was Tom Chaney's uncle, was one of my high school English teachers here in Lebanon, TN.



In my sophomore class there was a young man who sometimes spelled his name Virgil and sometimes Virgle.

One day she said, "You have to make up your mind which way you are going to spell it. I don't care which way you choose but after that, when you don't spell it 'right,' I am going deduct for misspelling."

s/Robert H. Stone


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