Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea
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Eye strike a key and type a work
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar wright
It shows me strait aweigh
>
As soon as a mist steak is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error write
Its rare lea ever wrong
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I have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.

Yes, yes, yes, it lacks apostrophes I know I know

Did it really?

cheaply, our chosen checker chokes on chequer.

-joe (chuck) friday

Actually that IS the way you spell "you're" if you are under 25! Unless you are texting, in which case you only need the last two letters.

Try running it through your grammar checker if you really want a surprise. Betcha it doesn't find more than about two, three things wrong with it.

Could you say which? I have no spelling checker.
I think sew should be saw.

I have a spell checker
It came with my PC
It plainly marks for my review
Mistakes I cannot see

I strike a key and type a word
And wait for it to say
Whether I am wrong or right
It shows me straight away

As soon as a mistake is made
It knows before too long
And I can put the error right
It's rarely ever wrong

I have run this poem through it
I am sure you're pleased to know
It's letter perfect all the way
My checker told me so.

Please, God! I hope I didn't screw anything up!!! :0)

There is a bunch of nice ones the poem missed:

kame
ken (better than kin, imho)
whirred (I think "work" was a typo anyway; LOL!)
em
thee
airer
let her
shoer

C'mon, peeps! Show me up with sum moor!!!! :0)

Ladle Rat Rotten Hut

Thanks for that Faldage - brings back memories of learning phonetics nearly 25 years ago! I remember that story and I've always wanted to find that again!

memories of learning phonetics

And your post reminded me of this.

is a story nice enough to be uncloacked out of its link:

The North Wind and the Sun is a fable attributed to Aesop. The story concerns a competition between the North Wind and the Sun to decide who was the stronger of the two. The challenge was set to make a passing traveler uncloak. However hard the North Wind blew at the traveler, the traveler only wrapped himself tighter. But when the Sun shone with warmth, the traveler was overcome with heat and had to take his cloak off. The moral was stated at the end of the fable as:

Persuasion is better than force. The complete moral of this is "Kindness, gentleness, and persuasion win where force fails."

Persuasion is better than force. The complete moral of this is "Kindness, gentleness, and persuasion win where force fails."
My mantle!! No, make that my motto, emblazoned across my shield.

a story nice enough

Bran, here's a page full of links to MP3 and PDFs of the fable of the North Wind and the Sun: (link). With four varieties of Dutch/Flemish; Sanskrit, Hindi, and Tamil; and Papiamento, too.

Thanks, zmjezhd. Downloading the Hindi and Sanskrit made me smile. The transcript shows that Sanskrit loved long words.

The transcript shows that Sanskrit loved long words.

Yes, even more than German, Sanskrit lends itself to compounds (samasa). I meant to listen to the Hindi one but forgot to.

That is really a wonderful thing , that language bank! So nice to hear all those voices and tongues. I'll listen more to it tomorrow (late late now) and hope it will stop turn away the north wind, that gave us a snowfrost Easter.
A lovely idea. Amazing that
[ Sanskrit - INDO-ARYAN- 50.000 fluent speakers- Dead language]
there are 50.000 fluent speakers for a dead language. Or are there just as many for latin and old Greek?

Funny , I never heard papiamento before, though I know a few who have lived on Curaçao.

Thanks a lot, Dzjeem.

That number was surprising to me too, I thought it would be higher. The total seems to have come from the 1991 census, I don't know what the 2001 census figure was.

Um... but isn't this thread all about 'unmantling' and such stuff? So if your mantle is kindness, gentleness and persuasion, according to the fable your mantle can be gently 'persuaded' off you! In other words, by being nice to you we can gently persuade you to turn into a nasty unkind horrible person!

There would be a lot of SPEAKERS of early Greek because of the liturgies of the Orthodox churches. But although they speak it in church, I doubt they actually UNDERSTAND it.

(Yeehah! With this post I finally graduate to being an 'Enthusiast!')

I've listened to the whole spectre of languages.
Sanskrit sounds really nice, and as always Brazilian Portuguese.

I thought we were talking about fables, not ghost stories!v

Ha!Should have checked that word. I meant spectrum, the rainbow colors.
So, it turned out to be a sloppy French choice where the word means 'spectrum' but on checking it, it can also mean ghostly image. I learned.