September 14, 2005

Speaking (again) of Homophones…..

Filed under: Uncategorized — Jim @ 11:49 pm

My friend Brian, the Air Force Vet, sent me the following clever bit, entitled “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.

Sadly, I can relate.

5 Comments »

  1. ROFL!!! That is wonderful… and oh so very true!

    Comment by Teresa — September 15, 2005 @ 12:52 am

  2. Heh. Homophones.

    Comment by Jack Bog — September 15, 2005 @ 1:04 am

  3. I love that poem. Once gave it to our secretary, who used to argue with me that spelling didn’t really matter…the same secretary who once addressed a letter to opposing counsel “Dear Satan” instead of “Dear Stan”. I’ve often wondered if he even noticed.

    Comment by rita — September 15, 2005 @ 3:36 am

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  5. Jim, my hands are still shaking, the grandfather clock in the hallway here has stopped, locusts are gathering in the window sill, and I can see my breath it is suddenly so cold in the room. Please, could you post some sort of warning next time, for compulsive proofreaders?

    Comment by dogette — September 16, 2005 @ 9:39 am

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