As a reporter I try to be accurate. I have learned that any time I use a superlative (only, largest, smallest, fastest, slowest, oldest, newest, greatest, best, tallest, shortest, etc.) I get in trouble. On a recent column I mentioned The Dalles, Oregon as being the only city in the United States that starts with the word The. Someone there told me that and I took it as gospel. Very wrong. Pard...
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