Thursday, October 20, 2022

RON PADGETT ~

 




Another Thing That Annoys Me


The spelling of 40. We have four and fourteen, and then, for

no reason I know of, the u is dropped and we're left with forty,

not to mention the schizophrenic forty-four. Most annoying, as

Sei Shōnagon would say.



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Ron Padgett

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Coffee House Books

2022



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