More orthographic errors than necessary
When my grandmother, an author, sent a manuscript to the Oxford University Press she got a bill back together with a note saying that there were more orthographic errors than usual. That is a polite way of saying my gran couldn't spell. Indeed she once tried to show a student, a Ugandan whose first language was not English, how to use a dictionary to look up the word "quarrel". She looked it up under k. So it is with humility that accept Francis's comment about my spelling of the word gym. I got it wrong. Sorry mate.

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I honestly thought it was some lovely anachronistic usage that had infiltrated your psyche while you were listening to the home service on the wireless.
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