[AT] Some ads from the 4/17 Lancaster Farming

[Mike Sloane]

I need to remind folks from time to time that many of these ads are 
posted by Amish who have only had limited education and, for many of the 
older ones, English is a "second language". So you wind up with a lot of 
phonetic spellings, like Ford End tractor (which I have seen more than 
once). How a grader's "scarifier" became a "clarifier" I cannot imagine.

Mike

Alan Nadeau wrote:
> Took me a while to figure out that Antic Jake Hammer probably decodes to 
> Antique Jackhammer.
> 
> Literacy can be such a rare thing. 
> 
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