Number of words: 123

“I have a friend who was a newspaper proofreader,” it began. “Each knight, he wood read a pre-edition copy to correct errors.” The point is of course that spell-checkers can’t recognize the context of a word. “Knight” is spelled correctly, but it has no place in a sentence about nocturnal activities, unless they involve a jousting match or damsel in distress. “Our Star, and possibly most papers, now spell Czech by computer,” continued Harold Simon in his ode to the dangers of computerized spell checking. “It is very fast and does knot make mistakes. If an author has an arrangement of alphabetic cymbals that exactly match the data base dictionary, it is ignored.” 

Excerpted from page270 of ‘Regret the Error’ by Craig Silverman