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oct 31 Learn More John Keats Born
John Keats, who was born on this day in 1795, may have been a great poet—"Ode on a Grecian Urn," anyone?—but he was a pretty rotten speller. In a love letter to his girlfriend Fanny, Keats misspelled "purple" as "purplue." When his lady called him on it, Keats dropped a Pee-Wee Herman-style "I meant to do that." Fanny wouldn't drop it, and Keats tried to explain the "purplue" away as a new word he invented that combined "purple" and "blue." Um, sure, John. And the Alamo has a basement.
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