Spelling of Shoveler

["Bob Forsyth" <>]

g'day all,

I thank Peter Fullager who in his Birding-Aus posting re "Baer's Pochard"

http://menura.cse.unsw.edu.au:64800/2004/07/msg00164.html

He wrote:

"Please, while I have your attenion, may I make a plea for the spelling of Shoveler.

Idiosyncratically, but for good historical reasons, it only has one l!

I for one have repeatedly erred ! Each of my my Quick Indexes for the 4 Australian Field Guides have it incorrectly spelt as "shoveller".

 

The Quick Indexes are are available for downloading on Birds Queensland Web Page http://birdsqueensland.org.au/

 

Regards
Bob Forsyth, Mount Isa, NW Qld.

 

ps....Quick Indexes are included in the latest editions of both Simpson & Day and Morcombe

pps..I saw my first Aust Shoveler only a couple of weeks ago !

ppps Of course I blame my spelling checker

 

Appendix

Eye Halve a Spelling Chequer

Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a quay and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its really ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect in it's weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.

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