Why you shouldn't rely on your spellchecker OR act like a stuck up know-all

I love this poem.  I don't know who originally wrote it, but I've kept it for years.  I've typed it out in big letters on a long piece of paper, and I roll up the paper into a scroll, then beat students around the head with it until they promise to check their spelling more carefully when they're typing up their work.

Eye have a spelling chequer,
It came with my Pea Sea.
It plane lee marks four my revue
Miss Steaks I can knot sea.

Eye strike the quays and type a whirred
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am write oar wrong
It tells me straight a weigh.

Eye ran this poem threw it,
Your shore real glad two no.
Its vary polished in its weigh.
My chequer tolled me sew.

A chequer is a bless thing,
It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me right all stiles of righting,
And aides me when eye rime.

Each frays come posed up on my screen
Eye trussed too bee a joule.
The chequer pours o'er every word
Two cheque sum spelling rule.

A little moral tale .....


When I was 9, I was the only person who could spell 'soliloquy' in my Junior School class.  The teacher was so impressed with me, she kept getting me up the front to write it on the board and telling everyone else off because they hadn't been able to learn it.  I was the same with 'accessory' and 'accommodation'.

But I was 34 before anyone would be friends with me.

Being able to spell isn't everything, folks.