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>I am trying to find documentation of a quotation, which I think was
>attributed to Thomas Jefferson.
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>The quote went something like this.......
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>"Unless you can think of at least two different ways to spell a word, you're
>not very creative."
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>Or something like that.
>
>Any ideas?
I have seen a quotation similar to the above quoted by persons on
Newsgroups, but I have never seen the quotation in an authentic source.
Jefferson did spell some words differently from time to time, and he even
invented a few new words which have become an accepted part of the
language. I suspect the above quotation is spurious, but I cannot say for
certain.
The home base for my quotation website at the University of Virginia has
an interesting section on Jefferson's use of language that you might find
informative. It is located at:
http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/
The section I am speaking of is on the quotations from Jefferson that
appear in the Oxford English Dictionary.