Young Writers Society

On the wall of our form room we had a small, but funny, poster put up by one of the English teachers who were annoyed with us getting spellings wrong because we'd used a spelling checker. It read like this:

eye have a spelling chequer
it came with my pea sea
it planely marques four my revue
miss takes eye can knot sea

when eye strike a quay or right a word
eye weight four it two say
weather eye am rite oar wrong
it shows me strait away

as soon as a miss take is maid
it nose bee four two late
and it can put the error wright
its rarely rarely grate!

i've run this poem threw it
i'm shore your pleased to no
its let a perfect in it sway
my chequer tolled me sew

So, the moral of the poem is? Be careful with your spelling chequer!

DarkLight

cute ^_^

That was terribly hard for me to read though @_@

its let a perfect in it sway

what is that line trying to say???

Yeah, I've read that one before.

Haha, I've seen this before.

(I had a hard time reading it, though: I had to say it out loud to figure out what it was supposed to say.)

Claudette wrote:cute ^_^

That was terribly hard for me to read though @_@

its let a perfect in it sway

what is that line trying to say???

haha, I just figured this out. "It's letter perfect in its way." Took me a while though, my mom had to tell me.

I too have seen this before. My university actually has it set up as a resources on the main page. I still advocate the use of a spell checker for intellijunt peepl. After all, we all make typos ...

Absolutely right!

Never only use the spell checker, because if a word is in the dictionary, it will change it to that word, which may not be what you want.

Although they seemed kinda petty, I think they have a very good point.

Good heavens, that was hard to get through! It was pretty funny though, and made for an enjoyable read. Thanks for posting!

its let a perfect in it sway

I found that one difficult to understand too!

I don't think this is a direct attack on spellchecking. It's more of a warning to be careful. Obviously, it takes it to extremes and it's not meant to be a real life example of what can happen, I hope. I thought it was quite funny and worth sharing.

DarkLight

Never seen it, lol. Nice XD

That was funny!
I couldn't cork out what this line was though:

when eye strike a quay or right a word

LoL!Funny!

I thought that it was difficult to read though

chocoholic wrote:I couldn't cork out what this line was though:

when eye strike a quay or right a word

I think it's supposed to be, "When I strike a key or write a word."

This was cute.

I've gotten this poem in a handout from English teachers since sixth grade.

It's right, though. ^_^

I love this poem and yes, you shouldn't trust a spell checker to do the job on it's own but they're useful most of the time.