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Maybe some of you have already seen this, but http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14045288/

Spell check company re-releases press release, because initial release contained a typo.

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HA!!

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I saw this! But it wasn't a spelling error, just an extra word the writer forgot to go back and delete... anyway, "oops"!

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Quote:

"the 16 million we (sic) pages it has spell checked over the past year."




if that (sic) [sic] was what they were up in arms about it wasn't exactly an example of spell check's forte.

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Um...I imagine that one was that they left off the b.


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