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At 01:57 AM 5/25/2006, MCJ wrote:
>I saw this on another list,"... people are still going to disapprove
>of you if you spell wrong, write?"
>. . .Do you flag "spell wrong", "act wrong", "play wrong" as errors?
>Are spell, act, play suddenly nouns? Or, is wrong now an adjective form?
DD: Surely you jest. If you speak or practice High Standard English,
the adverb would be preferred, unless it had to do with the spelling
of the word, "wrong." I won't go into the lovely humor of the
spelling of , "right/write,"
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