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.
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