This is a non-Moorcock question, but I reckon I will never find a more literate (and word-processor-literate) bunch to ask it of, so:
I read some years ago about a word someone had invented for the errors which a spell-checker won’t pick up.
For example if you type fro instead of for, nay instead of any, form instead of from (this is just from today’s typing !) the spellchecker detects words correctly spelled and so doesn’t alert you to your error(s).
Another good error is “typo�, which I’ve typed as a typo for “type� !
(And it wasn’t because of a hypo, and I’m not perpetrating a hype.)
So, just as the word typo came in, meaning typing error, there is a word for this kind of typo which you may miss if you rely too much on your spellchecker…
…but I have forgotten the word ! And no-one I know has ever heard or seen it. About all I can remember is that it wasn’t “spellchecko�! It was short’n’sweeter than that.
Over to you.
(If you don’t know the word, maybe you can make up a good alternative!)
Also, anyone got nay better examples? I had a good one this moaning but I can't remember it!
Best wishes to all,
Guy
I read some years ago about a word someone had invented for the errors which a spell-checker won’t pick up.
For example if you type fro instead of for, nay instead of any, form instead of from (this is just from today’s typing !) the spellchecker detects words correctly spelled and so doesn’t alert you to your error(s).
Another good error is “typo�, which I’ve typed as a typo for “type� !
(And it wasn’t because of a hypo, and I’m not perpetrating a hype.)
So, just as the word typo came in, meaning typing error, there is a word for this kind of typo which you may miss if you rely too much on your spellchecker…
…but I have forgotten the word ! And no-one I know has ever heard or seen it. About all I can remember is that it wasn’t “spellchecko�! It was short’n’sweeter than that.
Over to you.
(If you don’t know the word, maybe you can make up a good alternative!)
Also, anyone got nay better examples? I had a good one this moaning but I can't remember it!
Best wishes to all,
Guy
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