Usenet Posted 23 years ago
Usage
The spell-checker blues
Yes Virginia, I Need An Editor
Our WNN editor took a well-deserved vacation last week, and I thought I could sneak by without him. As more than a few of you noticed, I certainly had a lot to loose by that assumption. The best response to my boneheaded blunder came from Bill Campbell. I don't know who wrote this, but thanks in advance for letting me re-run it!
Eye have a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight for it to say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew!
Jim Louderback
Jim (Email Removed)
August 19, 2003 Vol. 2, No. 34
Our WNN editor took a well-deserved vacation last week, and I thought I could sneak by without him. As more than a few of you noticed, I certainly had a lot to loose by that assumption. The best response to my boneheaded blunder came from Bill Campbell. I don't know who wrote this, but thanks in advance for letting me re-run it!
Eye have a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight for it to say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew!
Jim Louderback
Jim (Email Removed)
August 19, 2003 Vol. 2, No. 34
Top answer
[nq:1]Yes Virginia, I Need An Editor Our WNN editor took a well-deserved vacation last week, and I thought I could ... " What appears to be the original version is at: CANDIDATE FOR A PULLET SURPRISE by Jerrold H. htm Best Donna Richoux
Get the Weekly English Kit 📬
New words, one handy idiom, and a 2-minute quiz — delivered to your inbox to keep your streak alive.
0
[nq:1]Yes Virginia, I Need An Editor Our WNN editor took a well-deserved vacation last week, and I thought I could ... spelling chequer It came with my pea sea It plainly marques four my revue Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.[/nq]
(snip etc)
That's a version of the one referred to in our "Intro E: Mini-FAQ on Spelling":
Humorous poems about spelling
Another poem is sometimes
(snip etc)
That's a version of the one referred to in our "Intro E: Mini-FAQ on Spelling":
Humorous poems about spelling
Another poem is sometimes
00
(Email Removed) (Donna Richoux) burbled
[nq:2]Yes Virginia, I Need An Editor Our WNN editor took ... marques four my revue Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.[/nq]
[nq:1](snip etc) That's a version of the one referred to in our "Intro E: Mini-FAQ on Spelling": Humorous poems ... Chequer." What appears to be the original version is at: CANDIDATE FOR A PULLET SURPRISE by Jerrold H. Zar
[nq:2]Yes Virginia, I Need An Editor Our WNN editor took ... marques four my revue Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.[/nq]
[nq:1](snip etc) That's a version of the one referred to in our "Intro E: Mini-FAQ on Spelling": Humorous poems ... Chequer." What appears to be the original version is at: CANDIDATE FOR A PULLET SURPRISE by Jerrold H. Zar
0