Why's this?

[Kiltie]

If I quote MGZRod's highlighted post here, the "s" gets cut off.

[eybic]

How strange or should that be ow trange?

[Rude-boy]

Noticed this a few times when people quote the first letter of the quotation goes AWOL.

[LordGrover]

It's happened for ages, but rarely consistently. Your example may be useful for troubleshooting/bug hunting.