I don't know if it's human or computer error, but every so often a company that has been spelling my name right for years --e.g., my credit card and utility companies--starts misspelling my name. Does Spellchecker tell it that "Jeanene" should be "Jeanine" or some other spelling? Or is some cublicle worker who's being over diligent [and presumptuous].

I say it can be simple human presumptuousness, because years ago, before desktop computers, when I gave my dissertation to my ["expert"] typist for the final manuscript, she took it upon herself to change a key word --"predication" [or "predicated"]-- to "prediction" [or "predicted] all the way through the whole document. In those days, this meant having to re-type most of the manuscript, or at least most pages containing that word. [The University did not accept pages that looked like they had been corrected.] The typist did not want to take responsibility for having made that error by assuming something instead of checking with me.

Susan,
My dad is a retired preacher, and he's been typing up many of his old sermons. You can probably imagine what Spellchecker does to Biblical names--e.g., Hosea, Titus, Ezekiel, Galatians, etc.--and words from the King James variety of English--e.g., suffereth, doth, hath, etc.! If you set it to auto-correct, you could come up with some pretty funny documents!

Genie