From: utzoo!decvax!cca!fortune!wichman@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Title: About correct spelling....
Article-I.D.: fortune.190
Posted: Thu Jul 22 18:17:46 1982
Received: Thu Jul 29 01:09:53 1982

  Remember that the entire concept of correct and incorrect ways
of spelling a word is only about 150 years old, and not very
harshly implemented anyway (e.g. tyre, centre, gaol).  So I see
no problem with "ov" as an alternate spelling of "of".
				Glenn