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Of all the satiric poems that point out the limitations of spell check software (and volunteer editors, for that matter), this one is the best I’ve seen. Sum tang two reed four yore con sit ration bee four righting Amy sing to pub lash.
Ann Owed too the Spelling Checker
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Eye halve a spelling checker. It came width my pea see.
It plain lee Marx, four mire revue, miss steaks aye kin knot sea.
Iran this poem threw it, your shore reel pleas tonneau.
Its vary polished inn it's weigh. (My checker tolled me sew.)
It rue lee is a bless sing, it freeze up lodes off thyme;
It helps me right awl stiles two reed, an aides me win aye rime.
Itch frays come posed up on my screen eye trussed wheel bee a Joule.
The checker pours oar ever reward two Czech sum spelling rue will.
Bee for a veiling checkers, hour spilling mite decline,
An if wear lacks ore halve a laps, wee wood bee maid too wine.
Butt now bee caws mice spelling is checked wit such grate flare,
Their hour know faults with inn my cite. (Well, off nun eye am a wear.)
Gnarl spelling does naught phase me, it DOS knot bringer tier.
My pay purrs awl due glad den with wrapped words fare too here.
Two rite with care is quiet effete off witch won shooed bee prowled,
Soul wee mussed dew thee best wee ken, cause floss are knoll long era loud.
Thus icon say why idle prays such soft wear fore pea seize,
And why eye brake in two averse, my right tin shore tool pleas.
And soul eye hope Yule all sew bye a checker four yore yews;
Sow win ware right ten beckon fourth, weaken mind hour peas an cues.
buy
Hen Rewards Worth Long Fellow
Eye halve a spelling checker. It came width my pea see.
It plain lee Marx, four mire revue, miss steaks aye kin knot sea.
Iran this poem threw it, your shore reel pleas tonneau.
Its vary polished inn it's weigh. (My checker tolled me sew.)
It rue lee is a bless sing, it freeze up lodes off thyme;
It helps me right awl stiles two reed, an aides me win aye rime.
Itch frays come posed up on my screen eye trussed wheel bee a Joule.
The checker pours oar ever reward two Czech sum spelling rue will.
Bee for a veiling checkers, hour spilling mite decline,
An if wear lacks ore halve a laps, wee wood bee maid too wine.
Butt now bee caws mice spelling is checked wit such grate flare,
Their hour know faults with inn my cite. (Well, off nun eye am a wear.)
Gnarl spelling does naught phase me, it DOS knot bringer tier.
My pay purrs awl due glad den with wrapped words fare too here.
Two rite with care is quiet effete off witch won shooed bee prowled,
Soul wee mussed dew thee best wee ken, cause floss are knoll long era loud.
Thus icon say why idle prays such soft wear fore pea seize,
And why eye brake in two averse, my right tin shore tool pleas.
And soul eye hope Yule all sew bye a checker four yore yews;
Sow win ware right ten beckon fourth, weaken mind hour peas an cues.
Good night, everybody!
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The decline of spelling checkers
In the last few months, I have noticed that the spell checker on BCTS and Google have gotten incredibly stupid; even stupider than previously. My guess is that a broad dictionary data base simply takes too much memory and increases program cycle time too much.
No spellchecker in BC software
We don't have the spellchecker in Drupal (BCTS) turned on, so any spellchecking being done on input here is in your browser, most likely. We don't turn on the spellchecker because then it would be on for everyone and it slows some things down.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Even the best spelling checkers
can’t catch those annoying homophone errors that bring the reader’s (or at least my) imagination to a screeching halt by focusing attention back on the text...which is the point of the barely (bear Lee?) readable poem above. Of course, that’s because spell checkers are not designed to catch those kinds of errors, although some people seem to think they are.
The only way I can rate the quality of a spell checker is by how good it is at detecting what I meant to type, and including it in the list of suggested corrections. Otherwise, I use apps on my PC that do spell checking (like the Firefox web browser, which checks what the user types into dialog boxes) and add words to the local database when necessary.
To catch other mistakes, I read through my stuff at least once before posting it. It’s sort-of like that last good look in the mirror to make sure everything is in place before stepping out...........
By the way, while I’m at it, it was this comment that inspired me to post about spell checkers.