Spell Checkers

[stewey]

Apparently, if you put the following verse through a spell-checker there are no mistakes.....Interesting and funny, I think.

Eye Halve a Spelling Chequer

Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Missteaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rarely ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it
Iam shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect in it's weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.

~ Anonymous

[B00]

Well it would pass a spell checker wouldn't it? As none of the words are spelt incorrectly.

Now a grammar checker might have been more appropriate ;-)

[stewey]

That was the gist of the article from which I copied the above, B00. It suggested that these checkers only catch about 40% of spelling mistakes (I would think that it would be higher), and certainly do not check for grammar.