Greetings Fellow Dialists, I have discovered the millennium bug. I know its whereabouts. The reason it has escaped detection and why people say they have not encountered it is because they are not looking in the right place. Far from it. You have met it. But it is not in your computer. In fact it is not electronic at all. Caution, do not download the subject title of this message. The bug is there.
I can reveal that it is the second "n" in "millennium". It has struck in very many places, sometimes with disastrous results. A calligrapher I know had a magnificent illuminated parchment returned to be redone as she had missed out that "n". Tony Moss tells me of a pedestal for a sundial of his into which the stonemason-letter cutter has recently engraved that word with a deficient "n". Examples are endless. Now you know, you can surely supply your own stories. We advise as an anti- virus programme the use of either the Shorter Oxford Dictionary or Webster (preferably morocco bound). This is the year MM. Please, please, protect your texts. Remember it is also the year of "nn". Failure to take action can produce hours of grief and toil. You have been warned. Frank 55N 1W -- Frank Evans
