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[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by Alex

How old are you? What I'm finding is that slogan dates to the '30s and '40s.

(And I'll stand by a spelling test as a journalism boot camp seems like pointless make work.)

I think the idea behind the exercise was to drive home the point that in Journalism things like spelling and grammar are important.

Don't know about the rest of the country, but down in Texas "10 2 and 4" was a common thing to see well into the 80's.