At 06:33 PM 10/13/99 -0400, Susan Carroll-Clark wrote:
>Greetings!
>
>>> Spelling checkers in word processing programs don't always help.
>>
>>An insidious example is when you are type in a passage of Middle
>>English and suddenly notice that the machine has been "correcting"
>>your spelling in the process.
>
>
>I did my doctoral thesis (the bulk of which was an edited Latin text) in
>Word. When I first started, having just moved over from a Mac running
>ClarisWorks, I didn't know you *could* turn off that function that
>underlines misspellings in red.
>The sea of red was overwhelming, but somewhat fun was the odd "English" word
>(like "id") which it "missed."
>
>Susan
>
>
Surely the word "id" was in the spellchecker's dictionary because of Freud?
Gordon Fisher [log in to unmask]
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