Fortasse has published his first e-book. It contains the cups and balls sections from Ozanam and Guyot. This clears up a lot of mysteries. It's an excellent work

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Thanks for the tip - that is a great book, and am amazed it is free! Thanks again.

Super. If somebody translate cards sections...

Hey, Oleg! How are you?

Me? I am fine. Find tricks from Guyo what appear on "Expert".

Just now made new Erdnase quiz:

On "Expert" a lot of words what have two different writing, one
correct and one not correct, like Charlies-Charlier or sleight-slight,
and there are only one word what have three different writings and all
- correct. What is this word?

Unfortuntely not many peoples interesting my questions.

By permission of Fortasse, this book has been sent to Conjuring Arts. They will have it available to search on line.

Oleg:

Actually, all of the spellings of the words that you mention above are correct. They just have different meanings when spelled differently, and in the context they were used in Erdnase, it makes them the wrong word. For example -- "Charlies" can mean "the plural of Charlie." Sleight means a kind of move or manipulation. Slight means small or it can mean to make someone feel small. But in the case of Erdnase, it was the wrong spelling for the meaning.

That's the fun of English. We spell everything phonetically -- but only in the language we borrowed the word from. This is why when we spell Russian words, the relationship to the Russian language depends entirely upon what language we borrowed the spelling from. We are as likely to spell the name of the famous Russian composer Tschaikowsky (German), Tchaikovski (French), or Chaikovskii (Library of Congress tranliteration).