To the editor:
Maybe, since he is one of our most distinguished Missourians, we should give Mark Twain the final word on the spelling controversy: "I don't give a damn for a man that can spell a word only one way." As quoted by Jennifer Weston in "A speller's manifesto," Newsweek, March 4.
IDA DOMAZLICKY
Cape Girardeau
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