That’s what Alan, of Southerly Buster (which I almost typed as Southerly Bluster, which would only have perpetuated the fun!) at my much deserved expense. It seems that a word I use here often at F&V–magnitude, as in district–sometimes come out as mangitude. Alan asked, of my reference, on 20 February, to the “lower mangitude” of Colombian house elections: “Why do Colombians read manga so much before voting in House elections?”
I must admit I did not know what manga was, and I wonder if now I have coined a new term with mangitude. Upon correcting the typo in the post on Colombian magnitude, I deleted Alan’s comment there, as it makes no sense now that I have rendered the post so much less interesting. But I wonder, why doesn’t Word Press include a spell-checker for us bad typists? Thanks, Alan, for being my spell-checker!
Oh, and there is an on line newspaper in Cyprus called Typos.com. Perhaps I should write for them (except for the small problem that it’s in Greek, and please withhold your comments about posts at this blog being Greek to you already).
See if the Google toolbar works for Firefox for Mac, as it has a spellchecker for forms, such as this comment box and the WordPress write box.
I use it all it the time (and still have my fair share of typos).
Of course, you well know that from the days when there was no spellcheck on e-mail and I would send off quickly typed (and unproofed) missives.
Seed planted by Steven Taylor — 23 February 2006 @ 10:22
Steven, I lament the passing of those days.
Seed planted by Professor Matthew Søberg Shugart — 23 February 2006 @ 12:24
Attack of the Sea Sponge
Fun with spell-check typos: Solo’s Errant Spell-Check Causes ‘Sea Sponge’ Invasion.
This reminds me of two spell-check related errors from school, which I have mentioned before (I think–too lazy to look): the student who tur…
Scion grafted by PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts — 02 March 2006 @ 12:32
Certainly there has been a certain loss of comedy in our correspondence, to be sure.
Seed planted by Steven Taylor — 02 March 2006 @ 12:40
Well, here’s a good one. Someone asked Google how long it takes pluot to go around the sun. My pluots, as best I can tell, orbit the sun at the same rate as the rest of us.
Presumably the person meant Pluto, but got referred to some of my fruit plantings.
Seed planted by MShugart — 02 March 2006 @ 12:56
Funny.
Seed planted by Steven Taylor — 02 March 2006 @ 16:37