Pet Peeve: Spelling of 'Separate'

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Best mnemonic: Can you sep-arat-e A RAT from a cat?


-----Original Message-----
>From: craigd at control-z.com
>Sent: Dec 1, 2006 4:00 PM
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Pet Peeve: Spelling of 'Separate'
>
>A personal pet peeve of mine (the folks on this list should 
>definitely know better): the spelling is 'separate' not 
>'seperate'. It wouldn't be so bad, except I see it misspelled 
>almost daily!
>
>Cheers,
>
>Max Anal, OCD
>