Show I i HOW r TIT TilEY SPELL IMMEDIATELY Webb Greene many years ago was wasa wasta 11 railroad agent In Illinois Being the agent of the com company pan ho was also telegraph operator for the Ve Western tern Union Union and and baggage a agent and several other things of or use to tho the trading and traveling public One day a man came caine In n and wrote a 3 mes message ge which Mr MiS Greene sent In it occurred the word Immediately and It was spelled wrong The fact th that t the word was unnecessary in a telegram struck struel U tile e operator and so so did the funny way ay In which the word was spelled Another day lay weeks later another me- me message with th the same samo word III spelled came under Ills his oh observation Then ho he h began gan making making mak mal ing a n. an n list of or them And It Is a n funny list toda today Hero Here are some ome of or the spellings on telegrams sent f 11 r- r I F t itly i 71 There are twenty six ways of spelling the tho word no two alike and no one right Yet It Is an nn easy word not subject to the excuse that English h orthography is to blame blamo for the word Is almost phonetic pho pho- In its spelling And readers renders of copy com in a newspaper office ollice probably probably ably could make a n. c collection of other words quite quit as ns Interesting as that collected b by hI the Vine old time old telegraph telegraph tel tel- operator |