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Nancy Hoft wrote:
> ... 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.
The curse of the spell-checker!
A similar thing happened to me with 'multi-vendor'. It's a pretty ugly
word anyway; it got changed to 'mullet vendor'. This wasn't buried
deep in the manual, either. It was in the Preface, right there when
you turn the first page. I was describing the software as being suitable
for fishmongers :^(
