Charles Sullivan wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 21:45:09 -0400, Don Nickell wrote: > > > "Barbara A. Brown" wrote: > >> > >> Don Nickell wrote: > >> > > >> > I checked the Internet for "independant city" and came up with a lot > >> > of them. > >> > >> and how many hits for the correct spelling "independent city" ? <g> > > > > What's in a name? Potatoe, potato; programmer, programer. ;-P > > One newsgroup poster complained he couldn't find anything at all on the > web when he ran a search for the Irish "POTATOE FAMEN". :-) > > Schools for the most part place very little emphasis on correct spelling > nowadays. Just as we usually check for alternate/misspelled surnames in > census and other records, it's often worthwhile to run web searches with > common word misspellings in addition to the correct spellings. Perhaps web > search engines will one day be smart enough to do this automatically. Hehehe, that's funny, Charles. Google does. I are an engineer (retired) and never really took a spelling class. Now with spell checkers even in my e-mail composer of NetScape I don't have to learn. Modern word processers are even better, (by option) they underline the misspelled word so you know you did! I love technology! ;-) Don