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Copy editors were thrown askew when Louise White, the $336.4 million lottery winner, placed her winnings in The Rainbow Sherbert Trust.

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The important fact of the story is that the money is being handled responsibly. May Mrs. White and her family enjoy the fruits of her good fortune for a long time. BTW, with $336,400,000, I am sure she can afford an extra consonant. They can't be that much more expensive than vowels.

Perhaps there was no complaint because there was no way to complain? I noticed it and would definitely have complained, if comments had been allowed. At least you could have said [sic].

I recently was at the funeral of an elderly aunt, and was reading her childhood diary from the early 1930s, in which she wrote of seeing an 'orangutang' at the zoo. In the group of relatives I wondered aloud at this old and familiar (to me anyway) pronunciation and misspelling, and at least two cousins quickly said, Oh, you know, it's just like 'sherbert.'