Repsect (That is not a typo.) - John Dunn, Consultant, Ambertec, P.E., P.C.

I just had a nasty experience with the spell checking in my Word program. In the course of some text, capital letters were used and therein was a spelling error of the word "respect" which was mis-typed as "...REPSECT...", an error which doing a spell check did not catch.

I made an entirely new file and did a little typing to replicate this error and found the following:

The spell checking only picked up the typing error when the misspelled word was in lower case letters. It would NOT catch the error for the upper case letters.

Why this is happening to me, I have no idea, but let's all take this as a cautionary tale.

Comments

[Fred Katz]

The spellchecker assumes that a capitalized word Is a name and accepts the word as a proper noun and deliberately does not correct it.

[Bill Wilkes]

I guess the spellchecker did not pick up "recogisers" either.

[Bill Wilkes]

Actually "recogizes". It's all part of being human.