My personal favorite spellchecker story comes from my brief fling as a marketing communications specialist at a computer software company, where my job was to write newsletters extolling the virtues of Version 3.72596 of the company's newest software product. (This is where I learned beyond doubt that I am an "issue" person and not a "product" person, and went back to work in the nonprofit advocacy world.) Anyhow, I had to write about the technical specifications for this software, and the company stylebook called for writing out words like "kilobytes" and "gigabytes" rather than abbreviating them to KB or GB. Well imagine my amusement when one of my articles came out the other end of the spellchecker with the note that the software required X "celibates of memory." Hmmmm...