What a Difference an 'S' Makes!

Robbie had an early start this morning because he is going to Leeds to visit Network Rail and you know what that means – the railway will probably grind to a halt! Every time Robbie goes north disaster strikes and they have points failure or power lines down.

As I began writing I automatically wrote Network Fail instead of Rail, that is how they are filed away in my brain and that is how I think of them, not that I think about them at all unless I am forced to! Anyway it reminded me that I came close to disaster when writing the blog the other day. I always use the spell check, but if you accidentally miss type a word that happens to be a different word the spell check will not highlight the problem. I read what I have written, but as I know what I intended to say I sometimes read what I expect to see instead of what I actually wrote. I had intended to write 'Robbie woke with a start' but just before I added the item to the blog I spotted my mistake, I had written 'Robbie woke with a tart'. That would certainly have set tongues wagging!

Spell Check 01.12.07

I love the way the spell check occasionally throws up something funny, when I was writing the last journal entry, the spell check wanted to turn Alistair Darling into 'alligator' Darling - that certainly gives him more teeth! It must be a misfortune to have a last name like darling when you want to be taken seriously, and those eyebrows don't help in the credibility stakes! Alligator Darling makes him sound like a character from Peter Pan, but personally I think his rather startling looks make him look like a villain from Thunderbirds.

I rely on the spell check, but I try to be careful because it can easily get you into trouble. Once there was a senior person in the company I worked for called Errol and every time I sent him an email the spell check wanted to change his name to error! There are lots of other examples.