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Okay, I put my hands up. In a post on Wednesday, on the 150th anniversary of Bernard Shaw's birth, I had so much fun at the expense of the Irish Times leader writer who confused Heartbreak House with Hearkbreak Hotel that I neglected to speelcheck my own piece and misspelt Pygmalion as Pigmalion. Mark Adair, ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Northern Ireland's ever-vigilant Secretary and Head of Public Policy, spotted the lapse. I could try to disguise 'Pigmalion' as a deliberately Shavian re-spelling; instead, I shall simply advertise here for a sub-editor and thank Mark for being gracious enough not to mock me with a well-deserved written comment.