Re: " Ode to the Spell Checker!"
From: | Connie McManus <conmac@cc.usu.edu> |
Mike,
This was great. I love this, but I like the "thought police" best... Do
they wear little black uniforms with white armbands with a cell in the
middle??
that was nasty of me.. I'll hunker down and wait for bombs.
connie m
Mike Kirby wrote:
>
> Honourable Histoneters.
>
> I shall, no doubt, incur the wrath of the "Thought Police" and the "Histonet
> Gestapo", but I think the following little ditty best sums up the hot debate
> on "ze Engleesh, as she is spilt"
> (I shall now retreat to my bunker and await the verbal barrage)
>
> "Ode to the Spell Checker!"
>
> Eye halve a spelling chequer
> It came with my pea sea
> It plainly marques four my revue
> Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
>
> Eye strike a key and type a word
> And weight four it two say
> Weather eye am wrong oar write
> It shows me strait a weigh.
>
> As soon as a mist ache is maid
> It nose bee fore two long
> And eye can put the error rite
> Its rare lea ever wrong.
>
> Eye have run this poem threw it
> I am shore your pleased two no
> Its letter perfect awl the weigh
> My chequer tolled me sew.
>
> M.Kirby. ("Warthog")
> Johannesburg.
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