Scott writes:
I am hoping that this will live up to the claim of “Oldest Cited Example”!I have attached [a photo] of an old religious poster. Of interest is the text on the lines from Earth at the bottom to Heaven on the right — “40 DAY’S, WAY’S”. (I also like how “God, Jesus, and the Angles” are advertised as living in heaven!)
I found this display at the Virginia Historical Society in Richmond, VA. There is no placard for the poster in question, but in context of the notes around the display, I think it should be dated in the early 1800s.
#1 by Blue on October 15, 2007 - 8:37 pm
LOL Jesus God and the Angles
#2 by NotSoccer Mom on October 16, 2007 - 5:06 pm
and judgment is spelled incorrectly too!
#3 by Mae on October 16, 2007 - 6:08 pm
looks like judgment can be spelled both ways… http://www.answers.com/judgement&r=67
#4 by Anonymous on October 21, 2007 - 3:25 am
I was at a Christmas party once where one of the guests had on a custom-embroidered holiday sweatshirt. On it were the names of her three children in a Christmas-y script, and arching over all three was:
“Mommy’s little angles”
Great party.
#5 by Anonymous on October 22, 2007 - 2:54 pm
In Great Britain and many of its former colonies, “judgement” is still the correct spelling; but ever since Noah Webster decreed the first E superfluous, Americans have omitted it. Many of Webster’s crotchets have faded away (each year fewer people use the spelling “theater,” for instance); but even the producers of Terminator 2: Judgment Day, chose the traditional American spelling. If you write “judgement” you should also write “colour.”
#6 by Em on October 22, 2007 - 3:10 pm
Oh my god. This blog simultaneously renews and destroys my faith in humanity’s intelligence.
#7 by Rachel on February 7, 2008 - 6:22 am
Pythagoras must have been divinely-inspired.