In a message dated 10/7/98 8:57:02 AM Central Daylight Time,
williams@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
<< Remember the old joke about "punishment will continue until behavior
improves"? Well, I've noticed a recent spate of misspellings of a word
intimately connected with photography. So, here it goes again...
"Lens" is spelled with ONE 'e'. >>
Well, pardner, you ain't ne'er lived in East Texas if this bothers you. We
make EVERYTHING two syllables. None of this Yankee "lens" for us'un. Len'se
it's gonna be. Us photo graphers generally say le-ens, though. The rest just
say, "what's that thang on 'da front of that there picture box."
Jim Bob from East Texas
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