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

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