Further to my most recent post that has attracted both a considerable number of comments and also aroused a little bit of controversy, here is a funny poem on a related theme. A reminder that spelling checkers have their limitations.
Spring tulips © Ricky Yates
Eye halve a spelling chequer,
It came with my pea sea,
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a quay and type a word
And weight four it two say,
Weather eye am wrong or write,
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long,
And eye can putt the error rite,
Its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it,
I am shore your pleased two no,
Its letter perfect all the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.
Nice one, Ricky. 🙂
Thank you Perpetua – I thought you and many other bloggers would like it.
LOVE it 🙂
Thanks Paula – I think it’s brilliant as it shows up the limitations of a spelling checker as well as being very funny.
Icy what your saying Dad!
Very good Phillip! If there was a ‘Like’ button as on Facebook, I’d click it.
Hi, Rev. Yates!
Ha, ha, that’s hysterical and right on target! Thanks for posting it. Did you write that yourself, or did you dig it up from somewhere else?
God Bless,
Pearl
Hi Pearl – Glad you enjoyed it. It was in my collection of ‘funnies’ from several years ago. I did embellish it slightly, for example changing ‘key’ to ‘quay’. But it is such a good & amusing reminder that Spelling Checkers are far from being infallible!
Hi Ricky,
Dictionaries can also let one down. My french mistress told the story of a girl who wanted “Le Cricket Match” and ended up with an insect and a light!
June
Hi June – These days problems are more commonly caused by Google translate than by dictionaries. However, the outcomes are often similar to that described by your French teacher.
There are other verses to this poem floating about. Here’s one quite apropos:
“To rite with care is quite a feet
Of witch won should be proud
And wee mussed dew the best wee can
Sew flaws are knot aloud”
A warning not to rely too much on our soft wear. Lettuce finish with that!
Hi Peter – Many thanks for this additional verse. It just further emphasises the limitations of spelling checkers!
More of the same: http://www.jumbojoke.com/unlimited_embarrassment.html
LOL Michael – same mistake as made by a friend of Sybille’s to which I make direct reference in my previous post. A very clear example to show that spelling checkers are not foolproof.
Hey Ricky,
I have to completely agree with this. Spell checker is fine for every-day writing, but it’s not a human mind. It can’t understand sentence structure and context. I use it all the time, but at the end of the day, if you don’t proofread, there WILL be errors.