BS: Owed to the Spell Checker

Subject: BS: Owed to the Spell Checker
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 11 Sep 03 - 10:45 AM

Owed to the Spell Checker


I have a spelling checker --
It came with my PC
It plane lee marks four my revue
Miss steaks aye can knot sea.

Eye ran this poem threw it,
Your sure real glad two no.
Its very polished in it's weigh,
My checker tolled me sew.

A checker is a bless sing,
It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me right awl stiles two reed,
And aides me when aye rime.

To rite with care is quite a feet
Of witch won should be proud.
And we mussed dew the best wee can,
Sew flaws are knot aloud.

And now bee cause my spelling
Is checked with such grate flare,
Their are know faults with in my cite,
Of none eye am a wear.

Each frays come posed up on my screen
Eye trussed to bee a joule
The checker poured o'er every word
To cheque sum spelling rule.

That's why aye brake in two averse
By righting wants to pleas,
Sow now ewe see why eye dew prays
Such soft wear for pea seas!


(Author Unknown)
Robin

Subject: RE: BS: Owed to the Spell Checker
From: Wolfgang
Date: 11 Sep 03 - 11:04 AM

I just ran it through my spellchecker and it marked nearly each single word as wrong.

Wolfgang :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Owed to the Spell Checker
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 11 Sep 03 - 11:12 AM

the only word MS-Word picked up was 'cheque'

Subject: RE: BS: Owed to the Spell Checker
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 11 Sep 03 - 11:28 AM

All Netscape's spell checker objected to was "o'er". I wonder why - maybe they didn't program in any poetry?

MMario - MS-Word must be set for American english.

Wolfgang - what is yours set to read?

my favourite at work was Devilish for Devenis (my colleague's surname)

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Owed to the Spell Checker
From: Bill D
Date: 11 Sep 03 - 11:29 AM

this and variants of it have been posted here 4-5 times...it IS cute, though

Subject: RE: BS: Owed to the Spell Checker
From: sian, west wales
Date: 11 Sep 03 - 11:47 AM

Try spell-checking Welsh with an English spell-checker. Hours of fun.

Sin, west wales
(according to my spell-checker)

Subject: RE: BS: Owed to the Spell Checker
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 11 Sep 03 - 05:15 PM

I ran the words of Gaudete through a spellchecker.... rather like the idea of a bandicoot domino..

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Owed to the Spell Checker
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 11 Sep 03 - 07:13 PM

Bill D,
would appreciate if you have links to previous relevant postings - it's a little dificult to guess what would be reasonable search criteria...

BTW
The nice little Queensland town of Toowoomba, for some reason wants to become "Tearooms" in my spellchecker (I use EditPlus).

Thanks
Robin

Subject: RE: BS: Owed to the Spell Checker
From: Bill D
Date: 11 Sep 03 - 07:37 PM

ok...*grin* here ya' go....

http://www.mudcat.org/Detail.CFM?messages__Message_ID=80760

http://www.mudcat.org/Detail.CFM?messages__Message_ID=389526

http://www.mudcat.org/Detail.CFM?messages__Message_ID=401666

http://www.mudcat.org/Detail.CFM?messages__Message_ID=494714

http://www.mudcat.org/Detail.CFM?messages__Message_ID=886372

http://www.mudcat.org/Detail.CFM?messages__Message_ID=418456

search criteria was "four my revue" which seemed like a phrase likely to be in most versions...

(It really IS cute & clever...but cute & clever things get posted here a lot, due to the wide ranging knowlege of our members...and I'd bet it gets posted again sometime.~)

Subject: RE: BS: Owed to the Spell Checker
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 12 Sep 03 - 03:29 AM

Thanks Bill D

perhaps there is need for a "cute and clever" thread... oh I see what you mean... :-)

Robin

Subject: RE: BS: Owed to the Spell Checker
From: GUEST,Wolfgang
Date: 12 Sep 03 - 03:54 AM

Sandra,

of course I let it run the dafault mode, in German (grin).

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: Owed to the Spell Checker
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 12 Sep 03 - 08:54 AM

Hehehehe - What a way to liven up a dull Friday afternoon:-)

Just took Liz'z notion and ran Gaudette through the spell checker. Here is the result.

Gaudier, gaudier! Christies eat notes
Ex Maria virgin: Gaudier!

Tempus adept granite, Hoc quid opt bemuse
Carmine latitude Devote renames.

Deus homo fact us eat Natural migrant,
Mendes renovates eat A Chris to regnant.

Ezekiel's portal clause per transitory
Under Luck eat rota Sales inventor.

Ergo nostra control pallet yam in lustre,
Benedict Domino sales Rage nostril.


I think a Benedict Domino is good as well. Why he shold sell rage nostrils is beyond me though...

:D

Subject: RE: BS: Owed to the Spell Checker
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 21 Sep 03 - 10:11 PM

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.

ceehiro


Of course, the few who do not read in that fashion will be having difficulties. I don't know if that applies to dsylexics...

Just posted this so as you can tell if you are "normal"....

:-)

Robin

Subject: RE: BS: Owed to the Spell Checker
From: Burke
Date: 22 Sep 03 - 09:05 PM

Yr rhgit, I cuold reed it jsut feen.

Subject: RE: BS: Owed to the Spell Checker
From: Bassic
Date: 22 Sep 03 - 09:20 PM

Its taekn you lot yaers to wrok out how to do Hlul slpelnig. Its esay!

Subject: RE: BS: Owed to the Spell Checker
From: Bill D
Date: 22 Sep 03 - 10:35 PM

let's hope you never have to find this thread again using a search..*grin*

Subject: RE: BS: Owed to the Spell Checker
From: wysiwyg
Date: 22 Sep 03 - 11:56 PM

I was an excellent and wellpaid typographer's prufreeder.... till I learned to read like Foolestroupe and Burke posted, without trying. Then I had to find another career in a hurry!

~Snusnan

Subject: RE: BS: Owed to the Spell Checker
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 23 Sep 03 - 09:12 PM

Ah Burke,

You do have (according the the new rules!) SPELLING ERRORS!

feen ---- should be fine   !!! --> fnie...
reed ----                      --> raed...

etc

:-)

Robin

Subject: RE: BS: Owed to the Spell Checker
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 23 Sep 03 - 09:29 PM

heloo, waht all tihs is abuot?

Subject: RE: BS: Owed to the Spell Checker
From: Ely
Date: 23 Sep 03 - 09:50 PM

I used to have a blast writing anthropology papers and having EVERYTHING get underlined--my spellchecker could not spell "australopithecine" or "paleofeces" (it suggested "palefaces" as an alternative to the latter), among other things. Luckily, I'm a pretty good speller by nature so I don't have to rely on it too heavily.

Subject: RE: BS: Owed to the Spell Checker
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 23 Sep 03 - 10:02 PM

Now you got it John!

a Rael Natrual! well almost, you still can't spell Helloo!

:-)

Hey great! I can stop correcting my tpyos now...

Robin