In article >,
Mark Thorson > wrote:

> 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".

Here is a test for
your spell checker.

ANN OWED TWO THE SPELL CHECKER
by A. Nonie Mouse

I have a spelling checker -
It came with my pea sea
It plane lee marks four my revue
Miss steaks aye can knot sea

Eye ran this poem threw it,
Your sure reel glad two no.
Its vary polished in it's weigh -
My checker tolled me sew.

A checker is a bless sing.
It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me awl stiles two reed,
And aides me when aye rime.

To rite with care is quite a feet
Of witch won should be proud.
And wee mussed dew the best wee can,
Sew flaws are knot aloud.

And now bee cause my spelling
Is checked with such grate flare,
Their are know faults with in my cite;
Of non eye am a wear.

Each frays come posed up on my screen
Eye trussed to be a joule.
The checker poured o'er every word
To cheque sum spelling rule.

That's why aye brake in two averse
By righting wants too pleas.
Sow now ewe sea why aye dew prays
Such soft wear for pea seas!
--
Peace, Om

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