Check the spellcheck

By David Allen on January 5, 2009 6:34 AM | Permalink | Comments (3) |

Our spellcheck system here was of little help in proofreading Sunday's column on restaurants. Here are some of the alternate words it suggested:

For taquerias, "daiquiris."

For Tijuana, "Tujunga."

For pho, "who."

For tacos, "togas."

And for sushi, "Susie."

This is the same spellcheck that always wants me to substitute "clarinets" for Claremont and "monocular" for Montclair.

3 Comments

John Clifford said:

Don't you just LOVE spell check? However, you should be able to add words to the dictionary so that the next time it will at least recognize Claremont. At least ask your IT guy about it. Perhaps give them a list of words that are regularly "flagged" as misspelled.

[Oh, there's a quick way to add words to our individual spellcheck, which we got a year or two ago. I did that the first day with "Cucamonga" and a couple of others. Then I decided it was funnier to see "Monocular" and "Clarinets"! -- DA]

January 5, 2009 7:24 AM

Dee said:

"Tujunga." "Susie." "who." wore "togas." and drank "daiquiris."

Maybe your spell check is actually a frustrated writer -- desperately trying to get your attention. ;)

[Have my spellcheck's people call my people. -- DA]

January 5, 2009 9:41 AM

Ramona said:

My last -- hopefully -- job was at a company which shall remain nameless* and it consisted of days with alternating mindlessness, tensions, shifting the blame, denying responsibility, outright lying, and very few laughs. What fun!

Whenever I typed the company name, spellcheck offered "stupor" as an alternative. It seemed so appropriate that I never added the company name to the dictionary because seeing "stupor" made me giggle and say "Oh, yeah!"

Hopefully, I clicked "ignore" on the stuff I was creating.

*I guess anonymity is pointless because the company declared bankruptcy and closed their doors after I left them but still . . .

January 5, 2009 10:13 AM