# Microsoft word, anti-Semitic? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 17, 2001, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microsoft-word-anti-semitic/82189 "2001-09-17T16:51:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pezpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@pezpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pezpunk)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2001, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microsoft-word-anti-semitic/82189/1 "2001-09-17T16:51:09Z")
A friend at work just showed me this; Open word and type NY. Highlight the letters and right click. Go to Font and make it 72 point then select the font “wingding”. That is bizarre and somewhat unsettling. Has anyone seen this before? ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2001, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microsoft-word-anti-semitic/82189/2 "2001-09-17T16:56:21Z")
Yeah, and when you put the MS Word CD in your CD player and play it backwards it’ll say “The Devil Feltches Jewish Goats!” Really! It works! Try it! ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2001, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microsoft-word-anti-semitic/82189/3 "2001-09-17T17:16:29Z")
Coincidence. ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2001, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microsoft-word-anti-semitic/82189/4 "2001-09-17T17:28:11Z")
And if I examine the Oxford English dictionary using the Bible Code it says “Trion is God. Bow before him.” Well? ---
**Author:** ![TheNerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@TheNerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheNerd)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2001, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microsoft-word-anti-semitic/82189/5 "2001-09-17T17:30:21Z")
Coincidence. However, the results of typing “NYC” and in webdings (not wingdings) is probably not a coincidence. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2001, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microsoft-word-anti-semitic/82189/6 "2001-09-17T17:48:33Z")
_shivers_ Just in case… Trion is God All hail Trion Trion is God All hail Trion Trion is God All hail Trion Trion is God All hail Trion _ooommmmmm_ ---
**Author:** ![pezpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@pezpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pezpunk)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2001, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microsoft-word-anti-semitic/82189/7 "2001-09-17T18:02:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TheNerd \* > \*\*Coincidence. However, the results of typing “NYC” and in webdings (not wingdings) is probably not a coincidence. \*\* Probably true. NYC in WINGdings puts a thumbs up at the end. ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2001, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microsoft-word-anti-semitic/82189/8 "2001-09-17T18:49:08Z")
Thanks **Jonathan Chance**. That’s very nice of you, considering your initials. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2001, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microsoft-word-anti-semitic/82189/9 "2001-09-17T19:29:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Trion \* > \*\*Thanks **Jonathan Chance**. That’s very nice of you, considering your initials. 😉 \*\* Shush! Not so loud! I hear the black helicopters coming! Put on your tinfoil hat!!! (shiny side in) ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2001, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/microsoft-word-anti-semitic/82189/10 "2001-09-17T20:29:17Z")
It’s not the program, it’s the font. You can go into any word processing program on any machine that has Wingdings as a system font and see the same thing.