It's wicked weird, kid, being stuck at home in Boston this April week, exactly 7 years after the last time I was stuck in this same home during this same exact April week for very different but still terrifying reasons.

But it made me feel a little better when I saw that Lindsay Devers, a nurse anesthetist at Massachusetts General Hospital, had designed her own 26.2-mile running route around Boston's Back Bay, in a way that spell out "Boston Strong" — harkening back to that fateful week in 2013 when the bombs went off.

It wasn't until after this healthy healthcare heroine completed her solo marathon trek that she realized that she forgot the "n" in "Strong." From CBC Radio:

"I pulled up the app and I instantly was like, oh no, I spelled it wrong ," she said.

Despite the initial frustration, Devers is keeping a good sense of humour about the gaffe.

"I think a lot of people are inspired by it. And a lot of people have had some really good laughs," she said. "So I think it's a great comic relief in this stressful period."

Proud of my #MGH colleague ⁦@ladevers⁩ for her accomplishment and good sense of humor #bostonstrog 'Oh no, I spelled it wrong': Nurse runs solo marathon in shape of 'Boston Strog' | CBC Radio https://t.co/PJvZooyOdI

— Jeremi Mountjoy (@jeremimountjoy) April 23, 2020

And honestly? That warms my quarantined heart even more.

Devers had already been training to run the Boston Marathon to raise money for Dream Big! Read the rest

The blog Homophones, Weakly helps young learners and iffy spellers master English homophones with fun and simple graphic mnemonics. Now, it's coming out as a book. Read the rest

Five-year-old Edith Fuller correctly spelled jnana to advance to the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. She's the youngest competitor in the bee's history. Read the rest

On Saturday, the Associated Press announced that in the 2016 edition of their widely-used AP Stylebook guide to English grammar and usage, the words "internet" and "web" will no longer be capitalized.

"The changes reflect a growing trend toward lowercasing both words, which have become generic terms," AP Standards Editor Thomas Kent told Poynter.

Please note that Boing Boing will continue to capitalize Information Superhighway. Read the rest

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