Kudos! That’s wonderful. So, judging by the ending, in French, this is a “masculine” plural noun?
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The group attributed the misspelling of “heroes” to “pilot error.”
A more accurate attribution would be: “Southern Heritage.”
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The banner, which read, “Confederate heros matter” was flown by the Virginia Flaggers, a group that is "dedicated to the promotion of and education in flagging as a way to protect and defend all Confederate heritage,
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All I see on that link is a picture of a crowd by a monument with no banners at all.
Damn! I was just preparing to post that…
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No they don’t.
No, it does not qualify as a story; especially with all the misspellings that TPM produces!
But, yes, they made us click 
Growing disappointment on TPM…
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No, it does not; especially with all the misspellings at TPM!
But, yes, they made us click
Growing disappointment on TPM…
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Oh … I get it. Just being a nuisance Sort of like the Westboro Baptists carried obnoxious signs at veterans’ funerals to protest gay people. Well, that didn’t work.
One could only wish that they would stop doing that —
All depends on where you put it —
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What they say to racists:
“dedicated to the promotion of and education in flagging as a way to protect and defend all Confederate heritage”
What racists hear:
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah Confederate heritage
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Dildos.
The “es” plural for nouns ending “consonant - o” was always senseless. Dictionarys show both spellings for most of such older words and “os” for newer words added. “Do you want nachoes with tomatilloes to go with your tacoes and burritoes?” “No, I’m no longer hungry.”
Retaining the plural “es” convention for any remaining “o ending” nouns senselessly retains a spelling exception that adds nothing but aggravation to the language.
I often go on farragos about spelling reform, RVH, and yours was the best one to glom onto. Nothing personal, so please don’t truss me up with your lassoes!
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No offense taken, I’ve been known to go on a few farragoes myself.
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Perfect.
Conservatives also gloated when a BLM protestor misspelled a simple word. Also a pretty dumb story to run.
http://americanspotlight.com/news/the-black-lives-matter-protester-who-vandalized-this-statue-really-needed-spellcheck/
Yes, the fact that some black people and some white people can’t spell is not big news…
Some context on why this is a bit more of a story:
Richmond is in the process of hosting the UCI Road World Championship cycling race, which (according to the boosters) will eventually bring 100,000 people to Richmond to watch it. The “flaggers” are a small group of nitwits who protest the removal of a flag at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, which includes on its campus a Confederate memorial chapel. (Leaving aside that the flag was first put there in the early 1980s and most of the flaggers can’t even tell you correctly where the flag was during that time.)
The flaggers were specifically responding to a group of protesters who had encircled the Jefferson Davis monument, the most offensive of the confederate monuments on Monument Ave. (Thematically it’s the worst one of a bad lot: http://www.examiner.com/article/monument-avenue-the-jefferson-davis-monument-richmond-va)
So, this is more than just the usual Confederate symbols fight. It’s about the image Richmond wants to show “the world.” Needless to say, we’re not all on the same page about what face that should be. I for one am kind of glad this “embarrassing” incident happened – Monument Ave. is an embarrassment, and the sooner more people in this city pay attention to that, the better.
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“Confederate heros matter”
No. They don’t. Even if you’d spelled it right. They don’t matter a goddamn bit.
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Maybe they are talking about Southern hero sandwiches, in which case “heros” is correct according to Mirriam-Webster. You know, there has been a lot of unfair criticism lately of Chick Fil-A heros from gun control groups.
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The Gang that can’t spell straight…much less shoot straight enough to win the Civil War?
Did you read my whole comment?