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A Small but Necessary Amendment

on Fanny Mendelssohn's...well, the joke I want to make would be misunderstood by British readers

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David Bentley Hart
Oct 14, 2023
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Substack has an autocorrect function that I do not know how to turn off, and it seems to be tied to one of the most restrictive dictionary functions imaginable. Often I find it altering words that I must retype; and sometimes those alterations appear on the page here at the time of release, and I must go in to correct them.

None has been more egregious t…

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