Putnam County Spelling

Famous quotes containing the words putnam, county and/or spelling:

    Cut the pie any way you like, “meanings” just ain’t in the head!
    —Hilary Putnam (b. 1926)

    It would astonish if not amuse, the older citizens of your County who twelve years ago knew me a stranger, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working on a flat boat—at ten dollars per month to learn that I have been put down here as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.
    Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    My spelling is Wobbly. It’s good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
    —A.A. (Alan Alexander)