Re: Word Dictionary Wrong?!?!?

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From: John O'Malley
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1992 16:15

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>>>|I'm getting no error on the word 'dependant'
>
>>Now that the original poster has been suitably humiliated, I'd like to take
>>his side a little further.
>
>'the' is a *terrible* spelling of 'then' (and vice versa) but
>spellcheckers can never catch that mistake, which, although a little
>more extreme, is really of the same ilk.

Found the following on a chalkboard in a classroom on campus.  Please
forgive the intrusion in our regularly scheduled Macintosh discussion,
but it seems appropriate:

Spellbound

I have a spelling checker
It came with my PC;
It plainly marks four my revue
Mistakes I cannot sea.
I've run this poem threw it
I'm sure your pleased too no.
It's letter perfect in it's weigh.
My checker tolled me sew.

     -- Pennye Harper


-John
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