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 More options Mar 1 1996, 3:00 am
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From: kjbl...@aol.com (KJBlake)
Date: 1996/03/01
Subject: Re: Spelling Checker Hazard (was Re: I before E)
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In article <4h624h$...@crl4.crl.com>, d...@crl.com (David A. Kaye) writes:

>This happened a few weeks ago to the menu of a well-to-do restaurant here
>in San Francisco.  The menu was spell-checked, printed, and a copy
>displayed in the window of the restaurant (as is the custom here).
Nobody
>noticed that the spell-checker turned "warmed spring salad greens with
>prosciuto" into "warmed spring salad greens with prostitutes."

Well, at least "prostitutes" was spelled correctly, which is more than you
can say about "prosciuto."

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