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Spelling Nazis of the world, unight!

Danny Westneat | A crusade to edit America

The other day a man wearing a brown fedora strolled through Pike Place Market. Unlike most tourists, he wasn't there to browse or buy.

He was there to edit.Yes, edit. Toting markers, chalk and white-out, the man known as the Indiana Jones of typos had come to do battle with this city's misspellings and botched punctuation.

Seattle, bookish as it may claim to be, was revealed to be barely literate.

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