There were so many clearer ways to word this.

Do one.

He wrote a line for just such an occasion:

I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth. And it that's sinful, then let me be damned for it! ^Blanche ^Dubois

“Tennesse Williams’s death was initially misreported as … “

“It was initially reported that Tennessee Williams had died …”

“Tennessee Williams died of x on x. However, an error in in the initial coroner’s report led to the persistent myth that xxx.”

Your title says it's a common misconception (a subjective statement) that his death report was corrected to say he died of a barbituary. (Which is not a word. You wanted to say barbiturate.)

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It has been falsey documented that Tennessee Williams choked to death on a bottle cap. We have since been informed that his death was caused by a barbiturate overdose.

yeah but posts must start with TIL try again

The “TIL” fits right at the beginning.

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TIL Tennessee Williams died from overdose, not from choking.

A barbituary? Did you read that in his obituate? /s

> Secobarbital (marketed by Eli Lilly and Company for the treatment of insomnia under the brand name Seconal) is a short-acting barbiturate derivative drug that was patented in 1934 in the United States. It is the most frequently used drug in physician-assisted suicide within the United States. Secobarbital is considered to be an obsolete sedative-hypnotic (sleeping pill), and as a result, it has largely been replaced by the benzodiazepine family. Seconal was widely abused, known on the street as "red devils" or "reds".

Sorry, a barbiturate.

Bottle cap? MFer choked on a manhole cover.

Now the "fear and loathing" line and "people who died" lyrics make sense. Didn't know what "reds" were other than the ecstasy pills that most likely contained heroin.

The amount of down votes😂 POWNED🫵👇

TIL that he died first of a bottle cap then in August he died of overdose of months later toxic level (1983) colorized in black and white

Mendacity

I came here just to see if anyone else was having to read the title three times like I did. I have a coworker that writes like this. He's intelligent, well-spoken, and knowledgeable but he writes in such a convoluted way that I have to edit everything he sends to customers.

Wot the fook have bottle caps to do with taking reds? Or any pills, can you tell me?

Besides, it's not a really a barbituary unless it was grown in Barbados.

Not a big deal it's the kind of word messup I tend to do sometimes too.