On Friday 12 January 2007 13:20, Steve Holdoway wrote: > On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 12:36:05 +1300 > > Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > On Friday 12 January 2007 11:43, Don Gould wrote: > > > crap. that gets me all the time... should write a program to > > > replace it automatically. > > > > Just take the word 'thou' out of your spell checker's dictionary. > > The number of times that you will want to use it in its correct > > meaning will be asymptotically close to zero, so you won't be > > inconvenienced at all. > > Bet you smellchecked that (: > Thou art perceptive, good Sir, I do indeed usually have a spell checker running in the background. I find it very useful because it frequently, but by no means always, detects the occasional typographical error, but I do feel the need to assure thee that I do not have much difficulty with either phonetic words or those of only four or five letters. However I can well appreciate that there are authors who become discombobulated by the fact that many of these so called amanuenses fail to register any concern or distress when faced with sentences such as: "Hay, look over their, those girls are taking the're clothes off - O My, there coming over hear!" :-)
-- CS
