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Posted by fentonsteve on 23 January 2012 - 10:12pm.
Issue 108, page 56:-
4Khz should be 4 kHz. k for kilo (as in a thousand), Hz for Hertz (as in Heinrich). Perhaps one for Seventies' next spelling test?
Sorry, but it is my profession to know such things.
Steve (nit-picker-extraordinaire)
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Whereas this caught my eye ...
... page 9: "defending the older artist's right to bare arms".
Now you mention it....
...in the Hank Williams' piece, it says - "The pair left their hometown of Montgomery, Tennessee on 29 December 1952.....
Well, there may well be a Montgomery, Tennessee(I've no idea) but Hank's hometown was Montgomery, Alabama.
That's where his grave is. It's the birthplace of Nat King Cole and it's where Rosa Parks stayed sitting down. Forgive me...I've come over all Loudon Wainwright III.
Just gotta share....
It's a common mistake
The capital K that is, along with db instead of dB. My personal bugbear is the use of a capital S to mean seconds, which a lot of otherwise competent engineers get wrong.
...anyone still there?
Seeing you asked
On page one item one of Mark Ellen's wonderful diary he mentions ZPZ playing "Moving to Montana" - it's actually just called "Montana".
And it goes something like this folks
One More Nit...
The caption to Mick Farren's photo on p35 states it was taken "in 1970, two years after releasing Vampires Stole my Lunch Money", when in fact the "Vampires..." LP was released in 1978.
[This might be an opportune place to say that this latest issue of Word is the best in a long, long time. The Bass Player feature and the Hank Williams article (about whom I actually knew very little) were particularly good. A real return to form.]