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Default Found typo on cereal box!

T wrote:
>
> The problem with spell check is that you can use the wrong word but
> correctly spell it and the software will never warn you about it.


Which reminds me of the time the spell checker
missed the word "adit" in something I wrote.
I meant "audit". It wasn't flagged as an error
because there is a word "adit", and I actually
knew what it meant. The School of Mines at
the university I went to had an adit for the
education of their students. An adit is a
blind, horizontal tunnel. However, I think
any competently designed spell checker should
flag "adit" as an error unless specifically
instructed not to. It is far more likely that
"adit" is a misspelling of "audit".