Readers of the Modoc County Record may recall a recent article by Jean Bilodeaux. The following ia a brief excerpt and a related story.

”A few days ago, a man from Peru was driving in Cedarville when he noticed the sign in this photo. It did not look right to him. Later he looked in a dictionary and could not find ‘cemetary’ listed. He knew something was off, after all it was pointed to a graveyard. Upon further searching he learned that ‘cemetery’ was from Latin and it meant to put to sleep or a place where the dead were buried.”

A long time ago, when I was learning to be a scribe, I made the same mistake of misspelling cemetery with an “a.” I received a long lecture from my editor about this error, and I never made that mistake again.

Tim