Re: Spelling checker... ;-)

[Stephen Shaw <stephen@apple2.org.invalid.za>]

On 19 Jun 2002 21:54:17 +0200, Raymond Wiker wrote:

> ludditetech@mac.com (Simon Williams) writes:
>
>> > We are mostly "hobbyists" (that's "hobby-ists"), not "hobbiests",
>> > please.  My spelling checker drives me crazy when it encounters
>> > a misspelling trying to become a real word.  ;-)
>>
>> I thought we wre mostly Hobbits...
>>
>> Did you know that AppleWorks 5 (mac) doesn't recognize the words
>> ProDOS or AppleSoft... and quite a few other AppleWords of yore...
>> don't these people have any sense of nostalgia???
>
>         Ericsson Telecom once used a text processing system for
> documentation that would try to "correct" "Ericsson Telecom" into
> "Erection Talcum". This is absolutely true.

We had a province here called Transvaal - early spell checkers insisted that
it should be transvestite.


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