Spelling mistakes

Money dines with friends.

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Money: And then he told me, “Waterlily has two “l”s, not three.

Gustav: Spelling isn’t everything. The best speller in my class at school never became anything worthwhile, remained inconsequential until he died.

Pierre: Shakespeare spelled his name half a dozen different ways.

Waiter: If I could add, in a hundred years from now, there will be a man called Berners-Lee who invents something greater than Gutenberg, and he will be a bad speller.

Money: Ah, relief. Spelling isn’t everything in life.

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Voiceover

There may be a day coming when SMSers shatter language consistency by insisting on their ideolectal spelling variants and we are suddenly back in the Elizabethan age. Could the claim that good spellers are the bean counters of language be on the money?

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Monet

You have to say he was good.

Very good.

Even great.

You know he was one of the first artists to paint shadows not in black or grey but in colors?

Yet some of his pictures look a bit murky grey.

The foggy London series? Maybe the old oil is oxidising. Also he was losing his sight and with it his sense of color.

Did he make money?

Money? Monet? Pots. But not as much as the art collectors nowadays. They do well out of him.

Oh and the print sellers selling copies of his water lilies to Japanese. You know they stopped me from taking a photograph of one their copies
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