• lime!@feddit.nu
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    6 months ago

    the other typo makes it really hard to figure out whether “mophine” should have a [sic] on it…

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      6 months ago

      According to the snopes article that someone else linked in this thread, mofine is spelled incorrectly on purpose. This is a make believe story with overt racist undertones; the “r” sound in morphine has been dropped to imply that the rx thief is a black person.