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[Philip & Susan Troy]

Brenna wrote:
> 
> Philip & Susan Troy wrote:

> > Umm, formative years spent in the company of nuns with yardsticks? I've
> > always felt that spelling counts. It can tell you (or give you a pretty
> > good idea, anyway) the derivation of a word, what language it is
> > probably from, etc.
> 
> So, you're saying there are people who weren't subject to the blows I took from the
> yardsticks?  Seriously, I was given 3 different spellings for Stifado here (all
> involving f's instead of the d) which netted me nothing in searches.  Yet, you guys
> spelled it right first time out and I got the info I needed within 30 minutes of the
> first search I made with the new spelling.

Well, bearing in mind that computers are basically stupid people with
absolutely no intuition, all they know when they see a word that is
spelled 99% accurately is that it is wrong, and not the same as the word
they know. I was pretty confident that finding an accurate spelling
would enable you to find the recipe, since I had tested the theory
personally. There actually was one Web site that had a spelling fairly
close to the one you had (complete with a recipe in, I think, Dutch),
but with an alternate spelling that netted several other recipe sites. 

Yes, it's true. I was never the victim of an act of violence on the part
of any of the Sisters of St. Joseph, but I have witnessed my fair share
of carnage and strongly suspect my seventh grade English teacher of
having left the convent and gone into professional wrestling, all 85
pounds of her.
 
Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy

troy at asan.com
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