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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
  

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[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

  • [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
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[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]
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That's a version of the one referred to in our "Intro E: Mini-FAQ on Spelling":

Humorous poems about spelling

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[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

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