[Hallicrafters] 70 Year Old Spelling Error

Mike Lopez n8azc at sssnet.com
Mon Aug 8 21:37:45 EDT 2005


Apparently an ingrained tendency toward " isms ". Perhaps an intention of
the programmer ?
Mike


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Duane Fischer, W8DBF" <dfischer at usol.com>
To: "Mike Lopez" <n8azc at sssnet.com>; <Rich.Oliver at lowell.edu>;
<Hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 9:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] 70 Year Old Spelling Error


> What is it Mike, the old Mcarthy model? (LOL!)
>
> ----------
> From: Mike Lopez <n8azc at sssnet.com>
> To: Rich.Oliver at lowell.edu; Hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] 70 Year Old  Spelling Error
> Date: Monday, August 08, 2005 8:31 PM
>
> My spell checker keeps insisting I am a Nazi !
>
> N8AZC.........Mike
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Rich Oliver" <Rich.Oliver at lowell.edu>
> To: <Hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 6:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] 70 Year Old Spelling Error
>
>
> > We had a good one here at Lowell Observatory a couple of years ago.  The
> > local paper wrote up a story about our "LONEOS" (Lowell Observatory Near
> > Earth Object Survey) Telescope, only in the article it came out as the
> > "LOONIES" Telescope.  This had lots of folks puzzled but I knew how it
> > happened.  Just run "LONEOS" through your spell checker and see for
> > yourself.  Aren't spell checkers grate?
> >
> > -Rich
> >
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