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When typing a document recently the word "article" showed up as a spelling mistake and when I hit the Spelling tab to see why it was shown as an error, it turned out to be suggesting the same spelling as a substitute. Any comments please? Thanks Dave.
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Look closer, it appears to have caught a misspelling, "l" instead of "i".

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Rus wrote:Look closer, it appears to have caught a misspelling, "l" instead of "i".
Cute.
The cross-bar of the letter "t" influences the brain to fake a break in the lower-case "l"?
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Rus wrote:Look closer, it appears to have caught a misspelling, "l" instead of "i".
I was just going to tell you this, then I read your post #2! We proof-reading persons are not fooled by the oddities in Arial!

Reminds me of the directory definition:
Recursive, adj.; see Recursive
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John Gray wrote:We proof-reading persons are not fooled by the oddities in Arial!
I like the motto of the Ironic Sans blog:
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Yes, nice one!
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Thanks guys........I thought my eyesight was poor......now I know it isn't just poor .....it's bad .....just as well I went to the opticians a couple of days ago... Cheers Dave.