I ran the spell checker - always a Faustian venture - over my recent "My Hammer..." post and here is a selection of the fruits of wisdom it bore:
fuckin' – Puccini; Fijian; Fagin; buckskin; firkin
zephyr – Sperry (!?); zipper; cipher; gopher; Gopher; zebra
gunna – guano; Guiana; Guyana; Genoa; gnaw; Guinea; Goa
arse* - Ares; Aries; arose; ARQ (!?)
ya – yahoo; Yahoo
whinging – hinging; hanging; honking; ionizing; winking
y’know – Yukon; Yakima
trouble – trouble
I've a sneaking suspicion that the composer of this spell checker is a frustrated traveller with an interest in the classics.
*Australian spelling and pronunciation of “ass”
6 December 2004
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