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Bernie:I won't even ask you how you'd pronounce the prominent thoroughfare in Auld Reekie (as Glaswegians call their city) named Sauciehall Street !!!
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I voted and posted last night based on memory but after going back and looking at the letters I had to reconsider, which I am still doing. There may already be a list but here are most of the...
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Wrench,Here's a list:http://www.zodiackiller.com/discus/messages/28/739.html?1169625321
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--Isn't nineth spelled right?--Definitely both. I have a family member who writes quite well when they take the time to think about it, but when in a hurry and not caring they are terrible spellers. I...
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Thanks Deo, where were you for the last hour? Guess I should have checked first. Doing the grunt work over again does often provide insights though, such as the last word in sentence misspellings, if...
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Ok, replying to myself..NINTH. Duh.EDIT: Wrench--If you take those last words with the misspellings, do they make a new sentence? Or, if you take the letters that were spelled wrong or missing,...
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idenityfireingChristmassvictomdrondingteritorybluberbutonParadiceIn that order. I don't think it means anything, again unless they were on purpose and he got to the end of some sentences and thought...
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I opted for both. Some of them seem like misspellings that you'd really have to be reaching for e.g., "cerous" or affectations like Christmass. Others, like...
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Regarding 'Christmass' spelling error. In the Jensen/Faraday police report today I noticed someone typed the abbreviated term as Xmass. The most common to my knowledge is X-mas or Xmas....
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I voted feigned. It is not my belief that the Zodiac intentionally misspelled words to conceal, but rather, to reveal himself.
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I would be more interested in seeing everybody's opinion about why Zodiac seemingly misspelled so many words in his letters. What did he think would be gained and/or hidden by his questionable...
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The 'masking your intelligence by misspelling your words' trick never, ever works. Because the instant you do so, people think: "Oho! This is a clever guy who's trying to look...
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But if he wanted to make the cops think he was "smarter and better", why not just pick up a dictionary? What about the word "kid"? You'd have to a pretty horrible...
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You would think he would at least want the words in his cipher to be spelled correctly. I find it especially interesting in the 408 where he states "..all th I have killed...". Did...
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I think there's more than one thing at play here. For me he did deliberately misspell some words, not so much because he wanted to dumb down ( there's some of that there) but because they held some...
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cerous [ËsɪÉrÉs]adj(Chemistry / Elements & Compounds) of or containing cerium in the trivalent state[from cerium + -ous]'cerous' is actually a real word, though Z used it wrong.
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I agree with seans statement that there is more to this spelling stuff than meets the eye. I've been thinking that this has more to do with a form of cryptography called...
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My two cents: he mispelled some words intentionally because there are anagrams hidden in his letters, ex. "THE BEST SATERICAL COMIDY" hides the words SERIAL and HOMICYDE, try to play with anagrams...
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As a dyslexic person I see his/her/their misspelling in my own writings. As noted, "Z"'s punctuation and syntax is for the most part, correct. I have not heard much about run on sentences.
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