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On Sunday, July 31, 2022 at 8:12:44 PM UTC, HC wrote:
> On Sunday, July 31, 2022 at 4:04:27 PM UTC-4, NancyGene wrote:
> > On Sunday, July 31, 2022 at 7:55:19 PM UTC, george...@yahoo.ca wrote: 
> > > On 2022-07-31 2:13 p.m., W-Dockery wrote: 
> > > > George J. Dance wrote: 
> > > >> 
> > > >> Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog: 
> > > >> July, by Robert F. Skillings 
> > > > 
> > > >> A very pleasant mo[n]th is this 
> > > >> To be in a country town. 
> > > >> The sunlight doth the foliage kiss 
> > > >> [...] 
> > > >> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/07/july-robert-f-skillings.html 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > "Pleasant mouth"? 
> > > > 
> > > > A typo or a Edmund Spenser style spelling? 
> > > Heh! I'd say it's a typo, though it is an interesting image, when 
> > > combined with "kiss" in L3. So I've changed it to "month" on the blog, 
> > > and changed it everywhere it's promoted on the web. 
> > > 
> > > Sadly, while it's probably a typo, it's on all the online copies I've 
> > > seen -- I've looked at 3, and had to make decide which one to use (as 
> > > they vary in whether or not they indent the lines). Yet all of them have 
> > > "mouth". And I think I understand why. I must have read the poem 6 
> > > times, and each time I read "month" -- and I expect that everyone else 
> > > who put it on their site did the same. 
> > > 
> > > The other problem was that there's no authoritative source for the text 
> > > online, just websites that appear to have simply c&p'd each other. I 
> > > suspect that it's from one of the two anthologies Skillings's son says 
> > > he had poems published in, but I haven't been able to find either. If it 
> > > was typed in from a print book, that could explain the appearance of the 
> > > "mouth." 
> > > 
> > > Thanks for bringing that to my attention here. There is a silver lining, 
> > > when I or a reader catches an error like that: unlike the run of the 
> > > mill poetry site, it gets corrected. So I'd say, provisionally, that 
> > > unlike those other sites, PPB is a place to find a correct version of 
> > > the poem. 
> > George Dance, why did you reply to Will Dockery's comment and not to HC's, who was the one who first pointed out month/mouth? There were 4 comments before Dockery's and 5 afterward. Dockery added nothing to the discussion.
> Denial is a defense mechanism.
Ignorance is no excuse for trolling, and we think that both George Dance and Will Dockery trolled the poem instead of taking the matter seriously.   If we were George Dance, we would not change the poem just because we "think" it contains the wrong word.  If anything, we would withdraw the poem from AAPC and Penny's site until we could find out what the correct word should be or the history of the possible error.  The poem must have come from somewhere.