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Andrew J. Macfadyen, M.D. br> Omaha, Nebraska /p> p> THE "G" WORD br> Re: Lawrence Henry's The "W" Word : /p>

I would like to profoundly thank Mr. Henry for his column. He has taken as his sermon a quirk of our modern society that absolutely drives me up the wall. We might as well be speaking and writing in text message language. Why bother learn spelling. We only need to know what letter a word starts with. Come to think of it, a large percentage of our citizens really can't spell correctly anyway. Oh, and that doesn't even start to talk about the people that don't know when to use the correct form of "there," "their," and "they're," or any of the similar spelling/definitional differences of words in the English language.

p>I do have one small nit to pick. The use of the word "gay" has gotten totally out of hand. Mr. Henry writes of "'gay marriage.'" I thought that ALL marriages were supposed to be "gay" events. Unfortunately, Mr. Henry is writing about homosexual couples getting married. I have had occasion to become acquainted with quite a number of homosexuals in my life, both biologically male and biologically female. It has almost universally been my experience that they are "gay" a good deal less frequently and to a lesser degree than the heterosexual population at large. Simply put, there is nothing "gay" about most of them. Could you, Mr. Henry, get some remediation on the misuse of that perfectly good English word. If so, it would definitely improve the gaiety of my day. br> -- Ken Shreve /p>

Lawrence Henry replies: That's why I put the phrase in quotes.

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