Another side of the spell-checker story is one that Sam alluded to: a spell-checker is NOT the same as a proofreader, and will pass a word that's incorrect, as long as it's a real word. As I seem to have a congenital disability consisting of an automatic proofreader permanently hardwired into my visual cortex, I'm always amused to see those goofs in print. The first one I noticed was back in the dark ages of 1986 or so, in a medical journal (Pediatrics). One of the "filler" quotations at the end of an article was attributed to a medieval Jewish sage: Rabbit Tarfon!

Aloha,
Mark