Gold, Frankincense and, er …
A feature in today’s Daily Telegraph ‘reveals the medicinal properties of the bounties of the season’, offering hints on what can be done with cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, holly, mistletoe and the gifts of the wise men — Gold, Frankincense and Myrhh.
Sorry, make that Myhrr.
On third thoughts, Myrrh.
The Telegraph used the word Myrrh five times in the article, and managed to spell it three different ways:
2 x Myhrr
1 x Myrhh
2 x Myrrh
Two correct out of five, then. Not very impressive for a newspaper which regularly excoriates the government for falling educational standards, is it?
OK, admittedly it is a tricky word to spell, but Google offers 1,400,000 hits for MYRRH, 255,000 hits for MYHRR and 21,400 for MYRHH. For each of the last two it cautiously asks “Did you mean MYRRH?”
Not too hard to check it out, then.
