A little story about relying on spell checkers:
Some years back we had a consultant in and he drafted the requirements for some new CAD station PC's. The IT manager then sent an e-mail to his secretary to get the order processed. It read something like this (I wish I'd kept a copy because it was priceless).
Jill, can you please order on my cost centre a a new PC. It must have a 266MHz Penis, 80MB hard drive,...
The secretary had an evil sense of humour - luckily - and so she rang him back and asked him to verify if this was what he wanted. He said yes, so she then asked him to check and could he re-read his e-mail as she was still unsure of the request. OK, he didn't faint, but he turned bright red and left the office
In case you hadn't guessed it was a 266MHz Pentium. MS Word's spellchecker didn't understand the word Pentium and so it substituted for the closest match as he had "auto correct" turned on.
The moral of this is:
It doesn't matter if you can or can not spell. But it does matter if you don't check what you post.
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