In general, I have always been a huge fan of automatic spell check, but I admit, it isn't without flaws. When I worked for the American Diabetes Association, the spell check program always wanted to address my emails to the helpdesk as being to the "helpless," and if that word actually meant "those who are not helpful at ALL," I would have agreed with it.
Yesterday I was scrolling back through earlier posts looking for some information, and I noticed that my spell check had changed "voila!" to "viola." For those of you who were wondering why I was celebrating achievements by yelling about a large violin-type instrument.....Yeah, I wasn't. But, just in case I was setting a new trend.......
Violin!
I don't know......it just doesn't have the same impact.....
1 comment:
That's so funny! My family has a joke where, when we would be saying voila, we say vi-OH-la. Really loud and exaggeratedly. Not vee-oh-la, like the instrument, but vi-OH-la!
We also say tis-ki-yow-ski for Tschaikovsky because that's how my uncle heard a local radio DJ say it in probably 1971.
Spell check wants to change the name of my school to Shame. I hope that's not true.
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