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* The play "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" had audience members spell words. Sometimes audience members would be given the word "kumis", fermented goat milk. If the audience member spelled the word c-u-m-i-s, the announcer would say the correct spelling was k-u-m-i-s (both spellings are correct). |
* The play "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" had audience members spell words. Sometimes audience members would be given the word "kumis", fermented goat milk. If the audience member spelled the word c-u-m-i-s, the announcer would say the correct spelling was k-u-m-i-s (both spellings are correct). |
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** This could be deliberate, as half the comedy in the show derives from the announcer trying to eliminate audience members at any cost. |
** This could be deliberate, as half the comedy in the show derives from the announcer trying to eliminate audience members at any cost. |
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* ''[[The Merchant of Venice]]'' contains a character called, depending on the editor, "Launcelot" or "Lancelot." This doesn't seem so bad...except that the folios call him "Launcelet" or "Lancelet", and spell his last name, Gobbo, alternately as "Jobbe" or "Job." |
* ''[[The Merchant of Venice]]'' contains a character called, depending on the editor, "Launcelot" or "Lancelot." This doesn't seem so bad... except that the folios call him "Launcelet" or "Lancelet", and spell his last name, Gobbo, alternately as "Jobbe" or "Job." |
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Latest revision as of 22:15, 6 April 2022
Examples of Spell My Name with an "S" in Theatre include:
- The play "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" had audience members spell words. Sometimes audience members would be given the word "kumis", fermented goat milk. If the audience member spelled the word c-u-m-i-s, the announcer would say the correct spelling was k-u-m-i-s (both spellings are correct).
- This could be deliberate, as half the comedy in the show derives from the announcer trying to eliminate audience members at any cost.
- The Merchant of Venice contains a character called, depending on the editor, "Launcelot" or "Lancelot." This doesn't seem so bad... except that the folios call him "Launcelet" or "Lancelet", and spell his last name, Gobbo, alternately as "Jobbe" or "Job."
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