Re: Sudden death, pets

In article <2rnua35ju2honecd18mvbkde5tnu603l64@xxxxxxx>,
mike weber <fairportfan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:37 +0100 (BST), prd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Paul
Dormer) wrote:

In article <esvsa31akgq7hkfbs0jr5dqlj7lasafh0p@xxxxxxx>,
fairportfan@xxxxxxxxx (mike weber) wrote:

I don't like spllechekcrs. They take too much time to educate to
my idiosyncracies.

And they won't tell you if you made a typo that looks like a real
word.

And they like to tell you the wrong word, too.

I remember someone telling me about a mutual friend who was dyslexic.
He used a spell checker, but every time it flagged a misspelling, he
assumed he was right and added the word to its dictionary, so he had a
spell checker that always confirmed his misspellings.

My problem is that either (A) i make tpoys, like typing "a thome"
(where this subthread started), which a spellchecker might catch - is
"thome" an actual word? or (B) i use a spelling that's wrong for the
word i want, but is an actual word.

I used to work for a professor named Cozzarelli. The
spellchecker on the Mac I had to use (until I finally found
someone who could fix it) would correct that every time to
"Mozzarella." I don't *think* I ever let it go through onto a
finished paper, though there were moments when I was tempted.

Dorothy J. Heydt
Albany, California
djheydt@xxxxxxxxxxx
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