pornament

[Orion Montoya]

On 12/4/06, Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at csli.stanford.edu> wrote:
> > for "physical being":
>
> what do you take to be the intermediate step, the error that took the
> spell-checker to "psychical"?  exchange of "h" and "s", in "psyhical"?

I've just tried "psyhical" on Word 2000, and it did indeed suggest
"psychical", so there's our man.

I wonder if the bruited Word 2K7 contextual spellchecker will know better:

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