A few years ago, Blaxploitation films came back into vogue, and people started talking again about Melvin Van Peebles’ “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song.”

Just for the record, I’ve never seen the movie. I’m going to take a wild guess, and assume it’s about somebody getting some vigilante justice, to the tune of funky wah-wah peddles.

But while all these articles were coming out, all I could think of was the poor copy editors at the newsroom: “Wait, how many a‘s are in Baadasssss?”