worth a grin...

Marc L. Greenberg mlg at KU.EDU
Sat Oct 12 10:35:08 UTC 2002


MS Outlook's spell-checker prompts me to correct "Slavists" with "Sadists."
Clearly, there is a disaffected Slavist working in MS's Outlook division.
Marc L. Greenberg
University of Kansas

On Fri, 11 Oct 2002 17:51:20 -0400, Katherine Crosswhite
<crosswhi at LING.ROCHESTER.EDU> wrote:

>While spell-checking a document include various citations and
>bibliographic details, I learned that MS Word thinks that "salivates" is
>a good suggested correction for "slavists".  !!!
/.../
>Katherine.

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