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Bagpipe vs. "Accordian"
Posted By: Trip, on host 209.86.158.19
Date: Monday, January 31, 2000, at 13:13:05

Without wanting to sound like too much of a pedant...I'm more like "bagpipe" because that's spelled correctly.

This is a common mistake, though. There's an office supply store near me that has a large professionally-made sign that screams "ACCORDIAN FILES". I've told them several times that that looks particularly bad because it's right near the reference section where someone can look up "accordion" in the dictionary, but no luck yet. (Never mind that all someone has to do is actually pick up a package of the files to see that the sign was misspelled.) Ah well...my lonely crusade continues.

-- Trip

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