# When Cecil Adams is wrong

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**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [October 11, 2021, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-cecil-adams-is-wrong/952302 "2021-10-11T13:51:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2022, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-cecil-adams-is-wrong/952302/10 "2022-03-15T18:31:17Z")

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> [@whitetho](#):
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> In 2001, Unca Cece had to run an extensive correction about radio call sign practices:
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> [Why do U.S. radio call letters start with W in the east and K in the west (revisited)? - The Straight Dope](https://www.straightdope.com/21343450/why-do-u-s-radio-call-letters-start-with-w-in-the-east-and-k-in-the-west-revisited)

And it seems that this correction was issued in response to potentially the first ever “Comment on Cecil’s Column” posted to this message board, here:

> [@Cecil's Lousy Call Letter Answer (repost)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cecils-lousy-call-letter-answer-repost/11/5):
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> “With all deliberate speed”, Unca Cece’s promised update – brilliant as usual – finally appears in this week’s column, [Why do U.S. radio call letters start with W in the east and K in the west (revisited)?](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/010504.html) I happily withdraw my earlier posted tirade. Cecil took approximately 780 days to produce this “reply in full soon” – i.e. 336 days longer than the Iranian hostage crisis (although 120 fewer than the siege of Leningrad). In contrast, he needed but 31 days to get Lee’s [brassière-sizing](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=27201) update …

~Max

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