How Your Spell Checker Lands You in Trouble

Your word processor’s spell checker is not just useful. It’s often an essential tool, saving plenty of time spent leafing through dictionaries. It can even protect you from revealing embarrassing mistakes to your readers.

But your spell checker can only offer suggestions on what it thinks is incorrect, as the following verse illustrates only too well.

I have a spelling checker.
It came with my PC.
It Plane lee marks four my revue
Miss steaks aye cannot sea.

Eye ran this poem through it,
Your shore reel glad to know.
It’s vary polished in its weigh.
My checker told me sew.

A checker is a bless sing,
It freeze yew loads of thyme.
It helps me right awl styles two read,
And aides me when I rime.

Each frays composed up on my screen
Eye trust to be a joule.
The checker pours o’er every word
To check sum spelling rule.
(Source unknown)

Remember, your spell checker is a great tool to run over copy when you have finished your draft. But it is no substitute for reading work through properly.

Ewe no it makes scents!