Strude » words http://strude.com Promising you 5 posts a year... guaranteed. Sun, 20 Jun 2010 19:25:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 My ‘County’ Tis of Thee http://strude.com/2009/02/my-county-tis-of-thee/ http://strude.com/2009/02/my-county-tis-of-thee/#comments Sat, 21 Feb 2009 03:00:27 +0000 Strude http://strude.com/?p=427 Have you ever looked at word and thought there is no possible way it could truly be spelled the way it is?  The other day at work I was working on a query and I mistyped the word country as county.  A red flag went up in my head, so I looked back at the word, realized I spelled county and added the appropriate ‘R’ back in.

Then I just stared at the word.  Country.  Country.  Country is really ‘count’ then ‘ry’?  Count-ry.  It looked so foreign.

Even now, if I look at it too long, it starts to get funky.

Weird.

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