{stop}[(1, 1, u'jack@yahoo.com'), (4, 2, u'wendy@aol.com')]
A common issue with so-called "compound" selectables arises due to the fact that they nest with parenthesis. SQLite in particular doesn't like a statement that starts with parenthesis. So when nesting a "compound" inside a "compound", it's often necessary to apply
-``.alias().select()`` to the first element of the outermost compound, if that element is also a compount. For example, to nest a "union" and a "select" inside of "except\_", SQLite will want
+``.alias().select()`` to the first element of the outermost compound, if that element is also a compound. For example, to nest a "union" and a "select" inside of "except\_", SQLite will want
the "union" to be stated as a subquery:
.. sourcecode:: pycon+sql