On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 12:10 AM, Robert A. Rosenberg <hal9...@panix.com> wrote: > > By the way you mean Homophone not Homonym. The former are words that sound > alike but are spelled differently while the latter are words that mean the > same thing but are spelled/pronounced differently. There are also words that > are spelled the same but have different meanings and pronunciations > (although I forget the term for this case) such as in "Please read this book > which I have already read". > > Even worse is the use of Spell Checkers in the absence of follow-up use of > Syntax/Grammar Checkers. All a Spell Checker does is verify that an > alleged/supplied word is a validly spelled word NOT the correct spelling pf > the word or even the intended word. You have to use a Syntax/Grammar Checker > to attempt to verify that the word is correct in its usage (ie: Is the > correct homophone or even the correct word [when you accidently mistype a > word and end up with a valid word]). The best way of doing the later is via > use of the Mark 1 version of IEBEYBAL. > You can't go through all that without giving the most famous example, can you? http://www.jir.com/pullet.html
© The Journal of Irreproducible Results, v39 #1, January/February 1994, p 13, and v45 #5-6, 2000, p 20. Candidate for a Pullet Surprise Jerrold H. Zar Northern Illinois University (since retired): I have a spelling checker, It came with my PC. It plane lee marks four my revue Miss steaks aye can knot sea. Eye ran this poem threw it, Your sure reel glad two no. Its vary polished in it's weigh. My checker tolled me sew. A checker is a bless sing, It freeze yew lodes of thyme. It helps me right awl stiles two reed, And aides me when eye rime. Each frays come posed up on my screen Eye trussed too bee a joule. The checker pours o'er every word To cheque sum spelling rule. Bee fore a veiling checker's Hour spelling mite decline, And if we're lacks oar have a laps, We wood bee maid too wine. Butt now bee cause my spelling Is checked with such grate flare, Their are know fault's with in my cite, Of nun eye am a wear. Now spelling does knot phase me, It does knot bring a tier. My pay purrs awl due glad den With wrapped word's fare as hear. To rite with care is quite a feet Of witch won should bee proud, And wee mussed dew the best wee can, Sew flaw's are knot aloud. Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays Such soft wear four pea seas, And why eye brake in two averse Buy righting want too pleas. -- Jerrold H. Zar Department of Biological Sciences Northern Illinois University DeKalb, IL 60115-2864 jh...@niu.edu Title suggested by Pamela Brown. Based on opening lines suggested by Mark Eckman. By the author's count, 127 of the 225 words of the poem are incorrect (although all words are correctly spelled). -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
