"Mark Thorson" > wrote in message
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>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".

Not if you work in mining, which I do. The entrance to any underground mine
is referred to as an adit. I work in finance and compliance so audit is a
common word also. Oh dear, the confusion ;-)

JB