Re: dangers of spellcheck

Subject: Re: dangers of spellcheck
From: "Guy K. Haas" <guy -at- hiskeyboard -dot- com>
To: Susan Hogarth <hogarth -at- gmail -dot- com>, TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 09:54:59 -0800

Susan Hogarth wrote:

My boss caught one of my frequent mis-typings of 'form' for 'from' the
other day.

Bad enough. But not as bad as this one I (thank heavens!) caught myself:

'asses' for assess'

Any other ridculous boffos that overdependence on spell-check scanning
rather than actually reading can net you?


doe snot in place of does not
pubic in place of public

--Guy K. Haas
Software Exegete in Silicon Valley
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