# Black Sheep **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [August 22, 2001, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-sheep/77494 "2001-08-22T05:15:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![k.os](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@k.os](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k.os)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2001, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-sheep/77494/1 "2001-08-22T05:15:58Z")
[Here](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mblacksheep.html) is a link to the column discussed. I enjoyed it but have a _tiny_ nitpick to make. Bête noir **e**. Bête is feminine and noir that final e to make it feminine as well… Keep up the good work! [sub]_crosses fingers hoping first link on the board works_[sub] * * * I fixed your link. – Dex [Edited by C K Dexter Haven on 08-22-2001 at 07:27 AM] ---
**Author:** ![k.os](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@k.os](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k.os)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2001, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-sheep/77494/2 "2001-08-22T05:27:33Z")
[Here](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mblacksheep.html) is the link promised in the OP ;). And obviously it should read: “…and noir **needs** that…” sorry about that. [sub]I will preview each and every one of my posts…I will preview each and every one of my posts…I will preview each and…_trails off mumbling_[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![k.os](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@k.os](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k.os)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-sheep/77494/3 "2001-08-28T14:25:37Z")
Hmmm… I know it’s a minor nitpick, but the mistake has not been fixed in the staff report. Bête noir **e**. It’s a bit as if I (as a francophone) wrote that G.W. Bush is President of the United State. The missing ‘s’ is a minor point, but still a mistake. Very similar with that missing ‘e’ in bête noire. So this is not to be pushy, just to know why the mistake wasn’t corrected. Because it’s too minor? Because once written, staff reports cannot be updated? Or someone meant to do it and forgot? ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-sheep/77494/4 "2001-08-28T16:39:04Z")
Because we don’t accept a change based on one person’s say-so, so I had it on my list of things to check and then correct, and it slipped my mind. ---
**Author:** ![k.os](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@k.os](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k.os)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-sheep/77494/5 "2001-08-28T18:43:41Z")
No problem. 🙂 I was just wondering…