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From: mecurtin@alumni.Princeton.EDU (Mary Ellen Curtin)
Subject: The Shortcomings Spellcheck
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 19:30:00 PDT

The following is a letter to the editor from the Times of Trenton,
July 14, 1998.  I have the author's permission to post to rhf -- and
she had me correct a correction the newspaper's typesetters had made,
as well as a non-spellchecker mistake they had introduced!

The Shortcomings Spellcheck

I would like to apply fore a job as an editor of your paper.
I halve a computer, and it has spellcheck, and it wood seam
that this is awl I really knead.

I had originally intended too dew this last weak, but then I
happened to reed my horoscope in The Times, and it said:
"Put on the reigns before you lose control of everything. Of
coarse, once I red this, I gnu it wood be better to weight
four a more auspicious thyme.

Aye thought at first that maybe I should caul, but then I
decided it mite be better to right. I truly believe that I
would be a grate editor -- know matter watt -- rein or
shine. Eye wood make accuracy inn spelling the mane
ingredient of my editorial rain. Just to prove my hart is in
the rite place, I maid sure this letter was perfect -- I ran
it threw Spellcheck.

I really due wont this job, and I no I could bee a reel
asset, butt if yew don't higher mi, I won't whale.

[signed]

Sharon Lowden