I don’t think this is earthshattering news, but if there is one thing that all newspapers fret over, it is correctly spelling names.

When I purchased my first newspaper and moved to Elm Creek, I soon discovered that there were four different spellings of the surname “Meyer”—Meier, Myer, Meyer, and Myers. If that doesn’t throw a wrinkle into the proofreading process, then I don’t know what will.

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