I was never taught to type, and although I do most of my writing using a keyboard, and although I am quite speedy, sometimes my thoughts work faster than my fingers and words that I know how to spell get a little muddled on the page; letters are inverted, I make typos, my brain sometimes picks the wrong heterograph ( a homophone which sounds the same but is spelled differently… I admit, I had to look that up!))
Spell-check is a marvel, and very time-saving, but sometimes the combination of letters I’ve got down as a word defeats it and it comes up with something totally random and in the context quite ridiculous, or quite funny! Ever since it offered me only ‘amigo’ for ‘artichoke’, I have kept a little list of its suggestions; I only write what it gives if it is the only word it gives:
- purpose – pupate
- about – bailout
- Bletchingley – eye-catching
- chorizo – horizon
- changed – cabbaged
- then – Tehran
- Rachel – earache
- spanakopita – spontaneity
- interesting – Ernestine
- banoffee – Offenbach
- wonderful – underscore
Some of the suggestions are quite bizarre, some of them are understandable – especially since some of the words are quite unusual, but I quite like the way it spell-checked itself as ‘speechless’!
Lois Elsden 
Can’t bear spell-check, it’s either American or just plain wrong. I don’t pay any attention to it and if from time to time I’m uncertain of a spelling I reach for the dictionary on the bookshelf.
Isabel
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Oh me too with spelling something, dictionary all the time… it just made me chuckle at all the peculiar things it came up with when I did a typo!
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I think I came across another example of the dreaded spell-check in yesterday’s Weekend Guardian. In an interview with Mary Berry she said that she liked the smell of flocks in her garden! I suspect she prefers the scent of phlox rather than sheep, they’d eat all the plants anyway.
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That really is funny… but I would guess it’s more likely to be ignorance on the part of the writer… ‘the smell of flocks’… I’ll jut go and tell Bari!!!
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