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Dimensions3881 x 2379
Original file size8.05 MB
Image typeJPEG
Color spacesRGB
Date taken8-Sep-15 07:41
Date modified13-Sep-15 14:39
Shooting Conditions

Camera makeNIKON CORPORATION
Camera modelNIKON D7000
Focal length85 mm
Focal length (35mm)127 mm
Max lens aperturef/5.7
Exposure1/50 at f/5.6
FlashNot fired, compulsory mode
Exposure bias0 EV
Exposure modeAuto
Exposure prog.Unknown
ISO speedISO 800
Metering modePattern
Digital zoom1x
TRAV-O-TEL (Lincoln Highway Wiggins CO)

TRAV-O-TEL (Lincoln Highway Wiggins CO)

Wiggins CO is in the 1975 country song "Wolf Creek Pass." The opening line is, "Me and Earl was hauling chickens on a flatbed out of Wiggins." Two grammatical errors in just the first four words is pretty intense, even for country music. (For non-native English speakers, it should be: "Earl and I were hauling chickens....")

But the record belongs to a Kentucky waitress I encountered at breakfast in 1972. When I asked about a mysterious something on my plate--a white blob with tiny lumps--I was told, "Them's grits!"

Depending on how you keep score, that single non-word contains either three or four grammatical errors:
. Them (those)
. is (are)
. faulty subject-verb agreement
. not a word

Also not a word: "Trav-O-Tel" although it might have been. "Motel" (a contraction of Motor Hotel) caught on instead and required only five characters, not ten.