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Viewers were encouraged to send in questions that pertain to spelling, punctuation, usage and pronunciation. These questions were put to a panel of experts from various professional fields. Sound recordings of broadcasts for May 18 and May 25, 1957, are archived with the
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gave the book a positive review describing it as a "hilarious blast at human gullibility ... a witty compendium of mistaken beliefs, scientific and otherwise."
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