From: joe_f@verizon.net   
      
   Martha Bridegam  writes:   
      
   > There's a puzzle in Vol. XII of the Complete Works, item 658, page   
   > 218 of first hardcover edition:   
   >   
   > It's in a letter from Orwell to his agent, Leonard Moore. It begins,   
   > "With ref. to yours of the 12th. I hope the enclosed srap will do. I   
   > attach a biographical note more or less of the kind the Penguin   
   > people use..."   
   >   
   > Davison substitutes the word "crap" -- "I hope the enclosed crap   
   > will do." -- and footnotes, "Orwell typed 'srap.'" But he has to be   
   > wrong. I can't remember Orwell ever using the word "crap." Other   
   > rude words of course, but not that one. It sounds too American,   
   > doesn't it?   
      
   And, what is worse, absurd in the context.  Surely he meant "scrap".   
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