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To: Organic Panic
Kind of funny to me that whoever wrote the test didn’t do a very good job proofreading their own work before they sent it off to the mimeograph.

Wrong. This is obviously a proportional font, which did not exist in 1912. It seems to have been transcribed from an original 1912 document to a post-1970s word processor or typewriter, which is what is shown in the link above. I am betting the original did not have typos.

26 posted on 08/11/2024 8:38:41 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: nwrep; Organic Panic

An atlas I had as a kid had spelled it Rumania. I’m guessing it was published in the 1960’s, maybe earlier.

By 1976 with Nadia Comenici winning medals, news outlets were spelling it as Romania.

I haven’t seen it as Roumania but I’d have to check some old atlases.


61 posted on 08/11/2024 3:19:32 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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