Roger Nelson (1:3828/7) wrote to Steven Horn at 04:45 on 27 Jan 2007:

 RN> I was seven when the Japs attacked Pearl Harbor.  I can still hear
 RN> President Roosevelt's radio speech in my head, believe it or not. 
 RN> Six months earlier, I lost my father.  A few years ago, I decided
 RN> to find that speech on the Internet and was surprised at the number
 RN> of mistakes in the text that appeared at various sites.  I finally
 RN> found an audio file of it.  It's about 7mb. 

 RN> The mistakes I saw at some sites reminded me of the flap I created
 RN> when I insisted that Thomas Jefferson's actual word in the DoI was
 RN> "inalienable."  Everyone corrected me so that it read the more
 RN> popular "unalienable," but there was no such word at that time, so
 RN> we can blame the word change on John Adams.  (-:

There's hope for me yet.  Now I know I will have a fighting chance to
compute at age 74.:-)

As for "inalienable", the word is still in my Concise Oxford and
Jefferson was correct in its usage.  What has happened since is simply a
sign of someone's stupidity.

Take care,

Steven Horn (steven.horn{at}northwestel.net)
Moderator, ALASKA_CHAT 
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