On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:55:52 -0400 Came this utterance formulated by Gene Young to my mailbox:
> Xiang Liu wrote: > > I am curious to see that the word _classification_ in the last line > > is recognized as a misspelling. (see the attachment) > > This situation happened to me many times, not only the only word > > "classification". Many words encounted before have been ignored or > > "corrected" by me. > > > > > > Curious. When I cut the offending word and paste it in to a pure text > editor I get "classi?cation". Clearly the f in your presentation is > not an f at all, it only looks like one. Strange. > It is the "fi" and it is called a ligature. It is where two letters are represented by one glyph or character in the font set. Bwcause it isn't in the dictionary then it will be marked. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligature_(typography) -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
