Tuesday, May 25, 2010

I'm embarrassed for my city and my state!

Fargo resident Brian Magee is appealing the state's decision to reject his application for a vanity license plate reading "ISNOGOD." He points out the state's approval of plates reading, for example, "ILOVGOD;" there's a discussion about the separation of church and state, government endorsement of one religion over another, blah, blah, blah, all very interesting.

That's not what bothers me the most. It's this: The Forum, the daily of newspaper of the Fargo-Moorhead community violated my orthographical pet peeve and spelled "atheist" with the 'i' before the 'e' in the headline!!!! (Be advised that The Forum also thinks they're All That and disables links to their articles--unless you pay a fee--after two weeks, so if you're reading this more than two weeks after the original post, you'll just have to take my word for it.)

In my defense, I am not a native North Dakotan.

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