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About six years ago, I was writing an article for a technical newsletter
about hardware, cross-point switches to be exact. I sent a draft out for
tech review. A few hours later, my manager came by and asked if I was
hungry when I wrote the article. Perplexed, I said, "No. Why?" He showed
me the first sentence in the article which did not talk about cross-point
switches at all. It talked, instead, about CROISSANTS! MS Word's
spellchecker had changed the word during a spell check and in my haste, I
never checked the spelling of the correction.
