Heroin, not heroine*

In yesterday’s editorial entitled, “In support of needle exchange,” the word heroin, which should have referred to the illicit substance whose abuse is on the rise in Somerville, was often misspelled “heroine.” Link

Thanks, Sam!

*Correction Nov. 14, 2007: The headline on this post initially and incorrectly read, “Heroine, not heroin.” We regret the error. Thanks to Beth for altering alerting us to the mistake. She’s a true heroine. Update  Nov. 29: And Douglas is a hero for pointing out the spelling mistake in the previous sentence.

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  • http://baylink.pitas.com Baylink

    (to a female) “You’re my hero. I would say ‘heroin(e)’, but I don’t do drugs.”

  • douglas2

    “Thanks to Beth for altering us to the mistake”. Alerting, perhaps?