The Omission of One Letter.
How completely the sense of a sentence is altered by the omission of an initial letter is shown in the following current selections from various papers : “ The conflict was dreadful, and the enemy was repulsed with great laughter.” “ In consequence of the numerous accidents occasioned by the skating on Tauton Lake, measures are to to be taken to put a top to it.” “ When the President’s wife entered the humble sitting-room of the mine, she was politely handed a hair." “At a large dinner given last night at the nothing was eatable but the owls.” “ A man was arrested yesterday on the charge of having eaten a cabman for demanding more than his fare.”
“ The Russian soldier Kachkinoffoskowsky, was found dead with a long word sticking in his throat.”
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Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 4, 9 July 1915, Page 3
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134The Omission of One Letter. Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 4, 9 July 1915, Page 3
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