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Thread #144748   Message #3351998
Posted By: GUEST,Dáithí
17-May-12 - 08:59 AM
Thread Name: BS: The most pertinacious errors
Subject: RE: BS: The most pertinacious errors
Hi guest/Billy

I understand that the misspelling of the name to Marie was because Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a short story based on the events using that spelling - which eventually became the refeerence popint no doubt due to his popularity.
I
guess similar happens today when we think that the way Hollywood tells the story is the way it was...