Reggie Bautista wrote:
>
> Ronn wrote:
> > > Though I guess I could do worse: the spell-checker in Eudora always
> > > suggests changing "Jeroen to "Broken" . . .
> >
> Julia replied:
> >I don't use spell checkers most of the time. This is one example of
> >WHY.
> >
> >It takes a lot longer to look up a word in the dictionary if I'm not
> >sure, but then I know that I've got the right word.
> >
>
> I had a co-worker at a previous job named Cyndi Troyer, and the
> spell-checker in Outlook kept insisting on changing her name to Cyanide
> Trooper. :-)
I heard of a situation where someone sent an offer of employment to
someone that they'd let the spellchecker have its way with, without
checking it. The name got changed, of course. (I don't remember what
the name was or what the spellchecker had changed it to, but it was
rather embarassing for the sender once it was pointed out to him.) This
was in 1989 or 1990, IIRC. I found out about it in '90 or '91.
Dan had a spellchecker want to change a friend's name, and now he uses
what the spellchecker suggested for voice-activated dialing for that
person.
Julia
