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#175012 03/24/08 01:26 PM
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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
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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

wow #175014 03/24/08 01:43 PM
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Did it really?

BranShea #175019 03/24/08 02:37 PM
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cheaply, our chosen checker chokes on chequer.

-joe (chuck) friday

wow #175055 03/24/08 10:59 PM
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 Originally Posted By: wow
"your pleased"


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.

The Pook #175066 03/25/08 01:33 AM
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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.

Faldage #175101 03/25/08 05:43 PM
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Could you say which? I have no spelling checker.
I think sew should be saw.

wow #175102 03/25/08 06:13 PM
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 Originally Posted By: wow
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 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
>
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


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)

twosleepy #175103 03/25/08 06:29 PM
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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)

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Faldage #175113 03/26/08 12:10 AM
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 Originally Posted By: Faldage


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!

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