from the letters of e.b. white


...i think i've discovered a mistake in the american heritage dictionary of the english language. vichysoisse. it should be vichyssoise, shouldn't it? i got on to this because of a newsbreak. webster ducks the whole thing, but my wife spells it vichyssoise and so does betty crocker. if i have turned up one misspelled word, my guess is there must be fifty. good. i like that...


(to carol angell, 1969)