"Forcing" for "divorcing?" (now going off topic)

[Mark Mandel]

Replying to both Ben and Charles: I wouldn't be so upset if a spellchucker
[sic] corrected "folksong" to
"filksing<http://www.prometheus-music.com/eli/virtual.html>",
but they don't. (The link there for "filk" is bad; it should be
http://www.dmoz.org/Arts/Music/Styles/F/Folk/Filk/, or better yet
http://www.kayshapero.net/filkdef.htm.)

m a m

On Nov 26, 2007 8:37 AM, Benjamin Zimmer <bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu>
wrote:

> Charles Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
> >
> > One of the many, many reasons I preferred WordPerfect to MSWord is that
> every time I typed
> > the word "*folksong*," WP would tell me I probably meant to say "*
> filching*."
>
> For many more examples of this *ilk*, see:
>
> http://blog.oup.com/2007/11/spellchecker/
>
>

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