Spell checker poem

[kcjenkins]

Spell Check Poem

(Reportedly nominated for a Pullet Surprise)

Eye halve 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 two say,

Weather eye and wring 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.

To rite with care is quite a feet

Of witch won should bee proud,

And wee mussed dew the best wee can,

Sew flaw's are knot aloud.

Eye have run this poem threw it

Your sure reel glad two no,

Its letter perfect awl the weigh

My chequer tolled me sew.

--Sauce unknown

(This did pass my iespell checker, and the WordPerfect checker, except for "chequer"....)

[jainen]

>>This did pass my iespell checker, and the WordPerfect checker<<

That's a good one, kc. (MS Word thinks Miss steaks should be capitalized because it is somebody's name .)

[Byron]

A spell checker should have flagged "flaw's" -- or a grammar checker might have shown that flaws doesn't have an apostrophe.

[jainen]

>>a grammar checker<<

I used to hate that, but I'm beginning to think a bit of standardized grammar might be helpful. Here's a monster double negative, a multi-uple negative, from one of our national leaders, Ben Bernanke, just this morning saying the Fed "will strongly resist an erosion of longer-term inflation expectations, as an unanchoring of those expectations would be destabilizing for growth as well as for inflation."

I think he means that inflation is a good thing because it controls inflation, but I'm not sure.

[Catherine]

>>a grammar checker<<

I used to hate that, but I'm beginning to think a bit of standardized grammar might be helpful. Here's a monster double negative, a multi-uple negative, from one of our national leaders, Ben Bernanke, just this morning saying the Fed "will strongly resist an erosion of longer-term inflation expectations, as an unanchoring of those expectations would be destabilizing for growth as well as for inflation."

I think he means that inflation is a good thing because it controls inflation, but I'm not sure.

There's another old saying that a double negative means a positive, but that there are NO double positives that mean a negative.

Yeah, right.

Catherine

[joanmcq]

Funny it flagged 'chequer' since that is a proper word in some of the english speaking world!