Tuesday, May 19, 2009

A Distraction: Fun With Spellcheckers

If I were so inclined, I might create a new form of divination based on a spellchecker.

I mean,when I put "Agincourt" into one, the spellchecker offered "encouraging" instead. Now what if I had told Henry V abbout that? He would have lauded me as a prophet of great skill.

So let's see what we can come up with for some other familiar names and terms.

Agincourt -> "encouraging" Certainly to henry.

Pontrefract -> "refracting" The death of King John gave everyone a whole new biew of things.

Crécy -> "précis" Perhaps if the French king had submitted one...

Clontarf -> "frontal" Those darn Vikings with their frontal attacks.

Roncesvalles -> "convaliscences" If only Roland could have.

Fothringay -> "mothering" Sorry, Mary, it's far too late for that.

What can you come up with?

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