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Letters : 'Self-Help' was a book on helping others Great book, shame about the title

G. M. Forster
Saturday 26 October 1996 23:02 BST
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In the extract from the Duke of Edinburgh's letter, the word centre is spelt incorrectly. Perhaps Prince Philip declined a dictionary, thinking it "enfeebling ... help from without" and instead relied on "self- help" in the form of his word processor's internal American spell-checker.

G M Forster

Horncastle, Lincolnshire

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