At 23:34 -0500 on 05/09/2011, Mike Schwab wrote about Re: Overloaded acronyms:
How about someone hell bent on using the wrong word that sounds like the correct word? I offer the Owed to a Spell Checker, formally know as "Candidate for a Pullet Suprise". http://www.bios.niu.edu/zar/zar.shtml http://www.bios.niu.edu/zar/poem.pdf Read aloud the words sounds correct, but he usually uses the wrong word for the context.
Science Fiction Author Piers Anthony pulled the same gag in one of his Xanth Books. A character had to write an essay and used a "Spelling Bee" to check out his essay. The Bee was not happy being forced to do the job so it intentionally provided homophones for all the words that it could. When read all was correct but the written submission was rejected. In a later book the sequence was recreated as part of a play.
This type of problem points out the difference between a Spell Checker (which insures that all the strings only represents a validly spelled word not the intended word) and a Grammar Checker (which verifies that the words are the proper ones for the context in which they occur - ie: It spots the use of the wrong homophone and/or word).
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