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Judge rules with ease
Arizona Capitol Reports Staff//December 1, 2006//[read_meter]
Page 2 of the Feb. 26, 1993 issue of Arizona Capitol Times featured a blip about a judge of Division 2 of the Arizona Court of Appeals. A sure candidate for most outlandish judicial ruling ever, the judge attempted to outlaw the proper spelling of a highly recognized word in the English language.
The presiding judge not only eliminated the letter E from plurals of the name “Inch,” he also declared that more than one inch is “inchs.” “No E,” he wrote, “shall be present in the proper name.”
The article’s author went on to highlight the obvious over-stepping of judicial power with: “A judicial command to spell a word wrong… a historic event in its own way, since it signals the court’s eagerness to repeal the dictionary.”
The author stated his tongue-in-cheek opinion with: “W’r all for it. Thr ar too many Es as it is. Dlt thm ntirly, w say, and b don with it.”
