Spell Checker Gone Mad

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I was trying to write "towards" on my iPhone. It first suggested I meant to write "roasted," and then thought it must be "dowager" that I was after.

What the hey?

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  1. Thomas L. Knapp10:41 AM

    Perhaps you have your spell checker set to American English ("toward") as opposed to British English ("towards")?

    Be that the case or not, I do admire the spell checker. That needless, extraneous "s" on "toward" and similar words bugs the fuck out of me.

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  2. gcallah10:48 AM

    Those "extra" s's were put in their by the State, Tom, to keep would-be revolutionaries worked up over trivialities.

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  3. Thomas L. Knapp12:05 PM

    Did the state misspell "there" for you too? ;-)

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  4. gcallah12:09 PM

    No, that was courtesy of Apple.

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  5. Thomas L. Knapp10:16 AM

    Well, I won't object to that any more then. The trufry market has spoken.

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