The spell checker

[Fred Blumenthal <xd2fabl...>]

Lori from Maxwell St. was remarking on her spell checker's difficulties 
with Yiddish and musical terms.  Presumably any language other than 
English would create a similar list, many musical terms having come from 
Italian.  An important question would be which word processing software is 
being used, although Word is becoming lingua franca.  (E-mail software has 
similar spell-check capabilities.)  Two comments: 
1) I don't want to specify how I found out, but my e-mail software, Lotus 
Notes, has a hard time with profanity.  (And I won't bother you with 
examples.)  and 2) It should be possible to add frequently-used terms to 
the spell checker's dictionary.  In Word go to Tools > Options > Spelling 
& Grammar > Custom Dictionaries > Select Dictionary > Modify > type in the 
word and click ADD > OK > OK > OK.  I don't mean to send a dour response 
to Lori's humorous contribution, but adding frequently-used terms to the 
dictionary might make checking spelling and typing go more smoothly.

Fred ("from Flad Ave.") Blumenthal
xd2fabl (at) us(dot)ibm(dot)com