Archive for October 8th, 2007

Spellcheck Side Effect

Monday, October 8th, 2007

Occasionally spellcheck will have an unintentionally hilarious side effect — a student’s best guess at how a word is spelled can be automatically ‘corrected’ into an entirely different word. Today I was grading projects that my classes did on “The Scarlet Ibis”. One student (while talking about one character’s unfortunate expiration from exhaustion) wrote, “He finds Doodle under a tree dead from execution.”