Editing and mistakes

tanwo at hotmail.com tanwo at hotmail.com
Fri Apr 6 17:45:24 UTC 2001


--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Jennifer Piersol" <jenP_97 at y...> wrote:
> Amanda (full of questions, apparently) asked:
> 
> > This is evidently one of those things that I grew up hearing and 
> > using, that is acceptable in spoken colloquial English: funnest = 
> > most fun. However, to my surprise, Neil's right and Word returned 
> > it in a spell-check.

Curiously there is also the word funest, which means 'causing or 
portending death or evil'. A slight typo and you've changed the whole 
sense of a sentence! Just the adjective for You-Know-Who ...

W





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