CONCENSUS

The convict count. Consensus is misspelled concensus so often, the editor figured we needed a word spelled concensus. No claim of originality, though. {Idea of one more coming back in than went out came from a Ridley Pearson novel, _The First Victim_ if memory serves.} Example: Bert: Hey, Ernie, what's goin' on? I did the concensus and we got one too many guys came in from the yard. Ernie: Nah, you musta miscounted. Bert: No, I checked and checked again. We got one too many. Somebody musta busted in.