# Yet another Slug spelling error

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-slug-spelling-error/99742>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [March 23, 2002, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-slug-spelling-error/99742 "2002-03-23T20:26:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2002, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-slug-spelling-error/99742/1 "2002-03-23T20:26:10Z")

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In the illustration for the [Were 40% of Native American women forcibly sterilized in the 1970s?](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/020322.html) column, the door from which an arm is extended is incorrectly labeled:

**STERILE  
IZATION**

Obviously, in order to conform with proper spelling practices, this should have been rendered as:

**STERIL-  
IZATION**

In addition, we are reminded that on page 198 of _Triumph of the Straight Dope_, a teleportation device is labeled **RECIEVE** [sic] ([http://www.straightdope.com/art/1996/960607.gif](http://www.straightdope.com/art/1996/960607.gif)) So it’s not like this is the first offense. As suitable punishment, I suggest that Slug be required to write “I will endeavor to spell correctly” one hundred (100) times on the blackboard.

Thank you for your attention to this vitally important matter.

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**Author:** ![JillGat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@JillGat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JillGat)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2002, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-slug-spelling-error/99742/2 "2002-03-24T04:10:00Z")

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Oh. Because otherwise Slug tends to present the world very realistically in his drawings.

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**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2002, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-slug-spelling-error/99742/3 "2002-03-24T04:17:11Z")

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I suggest that Slug be required to spell when you be required to draw. 😃

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**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2002, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-slug-spelling-error/99742/4 "2002-03-24T10:34:22Z")

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> \*Originally opined by JillGat \*  
> \*\*Oh. Because otherwise Slug tends to present the world very realistically in his drawings. \*\*

Fun is fun, but when you cross that line from fantasy to illiteracy, it endangers our very social fabric. Hyphenation unimportant? Tell that to an English teacher!

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> _Additional comment by Duck Duck Goose_  
> \*\*I suggest that Slug be required to spell when you be required to draw. \*\*

I would accept the sacred task of illustrating The Master’s columns with great awe and humility. This would mean more stick figures, but also fewer bodily fluids and smokers. And no more turkey-Cecils. Unca Cece would always be pictured in an appropriate heroic fashion. In stick-figure form, of course.