# Funniest spellchecker missfires?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-spellchecker-missfires/138621>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 25, 2002, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-spellchecker-missfires/138621 "2002-11-25T08:19:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-spellchecker-missfires/138621/21 "2002-11-26T01:18:39Z")

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…Elly?

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-spellchecker-missfires/138621/22 "2002-11-26T05:32:38Z")

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Old-school Catholics will appreciate this, others may not.

Years ago, it was traditional for people to go to church on February 2nd, and have their throats blessed. You see, February 2nd was the feast day of St. Blaise, patron saint of people with throat diseases.

Blaise has always been a fairly common name in France, but it’s rare in English, so most spell check software in the U.S. doesn’t accept it as a real word.

That’s why, last January, when I was reading my church bulletin, I saw a paragraph telling people to come to church on February 2nd in honor of “St. Blase.” (There must be a way I could get the accent over the e!)

When I read that, I figured St. Blase must be the patron of people who are apathetic about throat disease.

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**Author:** ![Lorenzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4da419/32.png) [@Lorenzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lorenzo)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-spellchecker-missfires/138621/23 "2002-11-26T05:37:14Z")

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> \*Originally posted by astorian \*  
> \*\*(There must be a way I could get the accent over the e!)  
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Alt 130

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**Author:** ![Terrorcotta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dbc845/32.png) [@Terrorcotta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrorcotta)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-spellchecker-missfires/138621/24 "2002-11-26T13:44:07Z")

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Thanks Parrothead, it sure was Word 3.0! I remember doing a doubletake so fast my eyeballs had to catch up!

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**Author:** ![hedra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/779978/32.png) [@hedra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hedra)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-spellchecker-missfires/138621/25 "2002-11-26T13:57:12Z")

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I was just editing a software installation document, where several instances of ‘implement’ were instead spelled ‘IMPALEMENT’ …

Unfortunately, none were all that funny in context, but I did get a snerk out of it anyway.

(Excuse me, I’ve gotta go impale Word XP… I _WISH_!)

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**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-spellchecker-missfires/138621/26 "2002-11-26T14:09:56Z")

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Ooooh, I remembered another—when I was at _Art Direction_ magazine about ten years back, I interviewed an artist who used “watercolor and gouache” in her work, which came very close to being printed as “watercolor and douche.”

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**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-spellchecker-missfires/138621/27 "2002-11-26T16:06:48Z")

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> **Thud Bra**

Band name!

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**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-spellchecker-missfires/138621/28 "2002-11-26T16:25:37Z")

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I once typeset a newsletter containing Jimi Hendrix’s name, and the spellcheck suggested “Hendrix” be changed to “Negroes”.

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