Making Light:  Grace ::: June 26, 2004, 01:44 AM

Jeremy Leader:

  My big moment of realization was when I discovered that the
  "inditements" I heard about on the radio and the "indiktments"
  in the newspaper were the same thing.

I had much the same experience with hearing the Three Stooges say
"uh-nile-ate" and sounding out "anna-hilly-ate" from some Heinlein
book.  And when I found out that what the teacher called the "verb to
be" was already a verb I knew about, not some unknown thing waiting
to become a verb, I was enlightened again.  Whoever decided we could
supplant vocalization with visual symbols has a lot to answer for.

On the other hand, I now find that surprise is often a good thing