March 20, 2025

Salem: Name Pronunciation Correction

We go back to Salem for me to correct a mistake.

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We go back to Salem for me to correct a mistake.

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Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is

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It is Thursday, March the twentieth, twenty twenty five. It

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is currently five point thirty four pm Central Time, and

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studio located right here in Abilene, Texas. Now, every single

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time I hit the button to go live, every single

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time I record an episode, in every single time I

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upload an episode, I truly hope that everything said in

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that episode, everything said in that live stream, everything said

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in that recording, I truly hope it is accurate and

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it is correct. But we all know that there are

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times that things are not correct, and there are things

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are not accurate because well, I make mistakes. I make,

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you know, a lot of mistakes, especially when it comes

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to pronouncing the names. When it comes to pronouncing the

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names of places or people, I sometimes don't state things

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in a correct way, and trust me, it bothers me greatly.

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It really does. And I'm always appreciative when anyone listening

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sends me an email says, hey, you didn't see this

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name correct, or you didn't name this place correct. I

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mean yeah, I mean I get upset and I get mad,

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but get I get upset and mad up myself, I'm

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very grateful. Soone points it out so that I can

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turn on the microphone and offer a correction. Now, I definitely,

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you know, I always struggle, Like, on one hand, I could

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just immediately go in delete the episode that contains the mistake,

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re record it, and then well, the mistake is gone.

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Only the people who heard the original know that the

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mistake ever happens, And there's nothing that would would indicate

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that I ever made said mistake. It would just be gone.

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It would be you know, deleted. But I as much

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as I want to do that, I mean, there's a

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part of me that really really wants to do that, right,

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there's another part of me that says, no, don't do

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that right. Leave your mistakes, leave your errors, but always

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record a correction. Always offer a correction so that people

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can hear the mistake and hear the correction. One, it's humiliating,

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which is good to keep you humble. And two, hopefully

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it shows that you're trying to be as transparent as possible.

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I mean, when I mean when you're doing things live,

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I mean there's no editing. There's no safety net. You

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either get it right and get it wrong. I don't

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have a producer in my ears saying no, no, no,

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correct that correct that. No, I don't have anything. It's

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just me in front of a microphone, and mistakes happen.

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Not excusing it. Those mistakes, every mistake I make, should

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not happen. Let me make that very clear. I'm not

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making any excuse. It's on me. I mean, my job

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is to get things right, but I sometimes make a mistake.

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And in the last episode, I made a mistake, all right,

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So I want to take a moment to issue a

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correction regarding a pronunciation mistake I made in the previous

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episode when discussing the Salem witch Trials, I mispronounced the

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name of one of the most well known victims. And

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as someone who's been studying the Salem witch Trials forever

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and has been to Salem multiple times, I've heard this

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name stated who knows how many times? I've read the

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name who knows how many times? And well, even though

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I've got all of that study research and even going

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and hearing the name pronounced, I mispronounced it, all right.

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So we talked about in the last episode, the gentleman

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who was pressed to death. His first name is spelled

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g I l e s. His last name c O

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r e y. G I l e s the first name,

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or that's the first name, g I l e s

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the last name c O r e Y. Well, I

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pronounced it as Giles Corey. Giles Corey is how I

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pronounced it. The correct pronunciation of his name is Giles Corey.

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Got Giles Corey, not Giles, but Giles. All right, Like, well,

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I'm not even gonna say this. I mistakenly pronounced it

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with a hard G, but historically it is pronounced with

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a soft J sound. All right. Now, some people may

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say it matters. May some people may may say it doesn't.

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It matters, Okay, it matters because we're talking about a

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historical event. So I strive to be accurate. I really do.

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I strive to be accurate as possible when telling these stories,

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and that includes names. I want to get the names right,

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I want to get the dates right. I want to

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get the details right. So I wanted to take the

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time to correct this and ensure that we're honoring well

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the story of Giles Corey correctly. I want to make

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sure we honor his story, honor him. I don't want

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to get his name in. I don't care if it's

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if it's someone I agree with or someone I don't

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agree with his history, someone that I think is the villain,

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or someone I think is the hero. It doesn't matter.

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You want to get their names correct, you want to

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show respect to history. And so I've tried to do

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my very best, and I just got it completely wrong.

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And I want to thank the listener who emailed me

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and told me, hey, that's it's not Giles, it's Giles. Now.

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I could sit here and make an excuse, you know,

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I probably could, because in my mind, I'm just going

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to be honest with it, with you and my mind.

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When I saw it, I immediately thought of the J. Giles

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Band from the nineteen eighties, right free frame. I could

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play some songs by them. But it's it's not the J.

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Giles Band. It's not the Jay Giles band from the

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nineteen eighties. It's not it is the It's starts with

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it is pronounced Giles Corey, not Giles Corey. It's not

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the J. Giles Band, It's Giles Corey. See, even when

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I see it it's hard for me to g I

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l e s. I want to say Giles, but it

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is Giles Corey, and I apologize that I got that wrong.

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I just wanted to take a few minutes to just

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tell everyone, and I will continue. Look, I really hope

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whenever I get something wrong, whenever people correct me, I

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appreciate it. Now some people correct me and a you know,

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in a way trying to help. Some people use my

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mistakes as an opportunity to bash me. It doesn't matter

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what you're using it as, whether you're trying to correct

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me or whether you're trying to go after me. It

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doesn't really matter. The ultimate goal is, or the ultimate

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end is if I take the correction and then make

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the correction live on the air, upload it. That's all

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that really matters is accuracy. Truth. Right. Can't be about

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my ego. It cannot be about that, And I'm going

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to be honest with you. When I got the email,

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my first thought was, well, I can just go delete

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that episode. I mean, not that many people have listened

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to it right now, I could delete it, redo it.

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Don't even have to mention it. Don't even tell anyone

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that I'm redoing it. The few people who listen. They

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they may ask the question, they may move on. They're like, well,

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that's he's repeating what he did last time, and then

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it would be it would all look nice and neat.

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But I try not to do that. I really do.

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Are times I will go in and edit things. Ever

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once in a while, I don't like when I do that,

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but sometimes I will. Sometimes I will delete an episode

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completely and redo it. But those are very very very

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very rare. I try not to because I like the

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idea that letting people know, hey, I make mistakes. I've

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made a lot of mistakes. Okay, I've made look forget

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I mean, look, I stated all the time. I'm a

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sinner with a microphone, so I sin all the time,

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and I well mispronounced things frequently. I really really do.

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I mean, I can make all the excuses in the world.

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There is no excuse. I should know Giles Corey, I

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mean I really should. He's one of the most well

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known victims of the Salem witch Trials. But I look

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at his name and I see Giles Corey. I do

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it's Giles. I could blame it on my love from you.

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It can think of the Jay Giles band, but it's

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the It's Giles Corey, so hopefully you will remember that.

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I will try to do better. I cannot promise you, though,

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I cannot promise you that two three, four, five episodes

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from now if we make some reference back to him,

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I won't if I especially if I'm seeing it written

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and written form. When I look down, I've my first

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thought is going to be Giles Corey. That's what I'm

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just going to because I see the g and it's

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just what in my mind says to do. I'm not

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seeing it's correct, but I may may make the mistake

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again and tempetuous. I messed that up when we were

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dealing with Acts twenty seven. I think I corrected it

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by the end of that episode. Someone emailed me about

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that as well, and I appreciate it. Tempetuous I think

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I said temptuous or I don't know even how I

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said it, but tempetuous, I think is the correct way.

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So I think I corrected that in that episode. But

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just to make it very clear, just to repeat, in

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the last episode, I mispronounced the name of one of

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the most well known victims. His name is spelled g

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I L E. S co r e Y I pronounced

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it as Giles Corey. The correct pronunciation of his name

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is Giles Corey, right, So I mistakenly pronounced it with

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a hard G, but historically it is pronounced with a

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soft J sound. I apologize. I will hope. I mean,

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I will strive to do better. I hope I will

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do better. But the one thing that is absolutely guaranteed,

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I will never ever be perfect. Thanks for listening, everyone,

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have a great afternoon evening. Most importantly, though, remember the

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lessons of Giles Corey. Giles Okay, I thought I almost

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said I thought I almost said it incorrectly. I'm like,

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I'm going to try to have this great conclusion. I

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thought I messed up already. No, But seriously, on a

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serious note, please if you remember how to say the

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name correctly, great. But what's more important is not that

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you remember whether you say Giles or Giles. Right. It's

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important because we want to respect the history. But what's

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more important, and I do believe this is okay, is

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I think Giles Corey will be okay if I get

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his name wrong. As long as we remember the lessons

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that come from the story, I think he may be

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okay with it. Because the lessons are more important. However,

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I'm not saying it's not important to get the name right,

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but let's remember the lesson from the Life an Execution

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of Giles Corey. Thank you, good night.