Topic: Why using a spelling checker might not work!

[InfraDig]

Taken from the BBC web site:

T Hill
12 Hours ago

20 years on, this says it all......

Eye have a spelling chequer,
It came with my Pea Sea.
It plane lee marks four my revue
Miss Steaks I can knot sea.

Eye strike the quays and type a whirred
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am write oar wrong
It tells me straight a weigh.

Eye ran this poem threw it,
Your shore real glad two no.
Its vary polished in its weigh.
My chequer tolled me sew.

[caroline7758]

Just shows what a difficult language English is- I used to use something like this when my pupils complained that German was difficult!

[djbrenton]

I remember an example from school


ghoti spells fish.

gh as in cou gh
o as in w o men
ti as in station

et voila gh o ti spells fish.

[saddad]

Throw in a good dialect and it can be totally incomprehensible...  ;D

[MissBaritone]

I used to work in the correspondence department of a well known telecoms company. Part of my job included checking the work of people new to the department to ensure it was up to scratch before it was sent to the customers.

The opening of one letter was intended to say "I apologise for any inconvenience caused." The guy who wrote it had ran it through his spell checker then sent it to me for checking. He must have mis spelt inconvenince and the spell checker did it's job and put in what it thought was the correct word. I opened the letter and read, " I apologise for any incontinence caused".

I'm still in contact with the guy who wrote it. As soon as I see him the word incontinence is enough to have us both rolling on the floor in fits of laughter

[pumkinlover]

 ;D ;D ;D Love this thread. We do not have a spell checker on the system at work and it's fun reading what we have all written at times. Just as much rubbish that way ;)