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http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/19/technology/circuits/19MESS.html

Nu Shortcuts in School R 2 Much 4 Teachers
JENNIFER 8. LEE

Each September Jacqueline Harding prepares a classroom presentation on the common writing mistakes she sees in her students' work. Ms. Harding, an eighth-grade English teacher at Viking Middle School in Guernee, Ill., scribbles the words that have plagued generations of schoolchildren across her whiteboard: There. Their. They're. Your. You're. To. Too. Two. Its. It's. This September, she has added a new list: u, r, ur, b4, wuz, cuz, 2....


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