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The correct spelling is misspellings and mispronunciations. However, back in the dark ages when I was education, a hyphen would separate "mis" from the root word. Printers and computers began to drop the hyphens because they are considered to take up too much space.

Your question/statement/or whatever that is regarding Hanchett and James W. Boyd has me confused, but I think it requires me to say yes, I do believe Dr. Hanchett's claim that Boyd was not killed in the Garretts' barn. He could prove that Boyd was killed in 1866 by a horse thief because of the man's obituary.

If you write about Lewis Thornton Powell (and be careful what you write because Betty O. will take you to task!), you should give his legal, birth name as Powell and indicate, preferably in parentheses, that he used the aliases of Paine, Wood, etc. You will notice that I skipped the "Payne" spelling because I believe that that was a deliberate misspelling of the name attributed to the authorities who were insinuating a kinship between Powell and the dastardly Confederate family named Payne.

So much to learn, so little time to teach... And it all depends on the willingness to learn held by the student.