26 June 2019 - Miss Pelling

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Miss Pelling’s work, in languages that suffer from homophones, is to adjust the writing system to distinguish them: I eye aye, captain, and nay neigh. “Faze” is only going through a phase. The written language, granted unnatural powers, then goes wonky and attracts wonks, and soon becomes more new than you knew.

clue:

Many are fazed by “direct current is unphased.”

give me a clue so sweet and true

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