TO HECK WITH SPELLCHECK

Or is it: “2 HEK WIT SPILL CHICK”

CANDIDATE FOR A PULLET SURPRISE

I have a spelling checker.

It came with my PC.

It plane lee marks four my revue

Miss steaks aye can knot sea.

Eye ran this poem threw it,

Your sure reel glad two no.

Its vary polished inn it's weigh.

My checker tolled me sew.

A checker is a bless sing,

It freeze yew lodes of thyme.

It helps me right awl stiles two reed,

And aides me when aye rime.

Each frays come posed up on my screen

Eye trussed too bee a joule.

The checker pours o'er every word

To cheque sum spelling rule.

Bee fore a veiling checkers

Hour spelling mite decline,

And if we're lacks oar have a laps,

We wood bee maid too wine.

Butt now bee cause my spelling

Is checked with such grate flare,

Their are know faults with in my cite,

Of nun eye am a wear.

Now spelling does knot phase me,

It does knot bring a tier.

My pay purrs awl due glad den

With wrapped words fare as hear.

To rite with care is quite a feet

Of witch won should bee proud,

And wee mussed dew the best wee can,

Sew flaws are knot aloud.

Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays

Such soft wear four pea seas,

And why eye brake in two averse

Buy righting want too pleas.

Author: Jerrold H. Zar, Graduate School, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115 - By the author's count, 123 of the 225 words are incorrect (although all words are correctly spelled).

Associate Professor Connie Krontz gave me this piece of writing or is it a “peace off righting.” Professor Krontz is a member of Seattle University Law School’s legal writing faculty. The legal writing program at SU is rated first in the nation or is that “rat it thirst?”