misuse of the italic
Tuesday, February 25th, 2003
Not sure Claire’s passport application will go too smoothly. Jeremy and I watched, with silent but increasing hilarity, as the office guy filled out his section. In spite of the fact that the word Australia is correctly spelled elsewhere on the form, as well as on both our passports that he was copying from, and in spite of the fact that he asked us and we spelled it aloud for him, he got it right exactly none out of four times. Instead:
Austrail
Austraila
Austrailia
Austraililia
They’re going to think we’re Austrian. Oh well. Otherwise, he seemed like a jolly nice chap.
