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Apologies if this has been posted before...

My Spell Checker


I halve a spelling checker,
It came with my pea see.
It plainly marks four my revue
Mistakes I dew knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait aweigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the era rite
Its rarely ever wrong.

I've scent this massage threw it,
And I'm shore your pleased too no
Its letter prefect in every weigh;
My checker tolled me sew.

It's been seen many places and many times, but as a classic, who am I to complain? It's a keeper, and as others have mentioned, repetition doesn't always hurt.

Whoever wrote this deserves kudos, big-time. Thank you, whoever you are.

It's really past time that ordinary spell checkers be replaced by a tool that also checks context and grammar.

Many years ago, I saw on a bulletin board in the Stanford computer science department a notice that announced "the semester will being on September ...". Okay, a harried secretary didn't reread what she was typing.

But today, an article in the Providence Journal, reporting the effects of a rather determined wind/rain storm, announced "ferry service is set to being on Wednesday." Really? Better tools are available these days. Use them!

Just found another one, in the Baltimore Sunpapers: "... her one weak old son ..." Aargh!