SECURITY COMPANYS WANTED

I don't think I'd trust any company that can't even run a spellchecker on its advertisements.

snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote: ACCOUNT & BUSINESS ACQUISITIONS WANTED Alarm Monitoring Contracts and accounts NEW YORK CITY AND LONG ISLAND AREA Contact: Joseph J. O'Brien Security Communicatons, Inc.

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Hmm. I reposted the original just to see if MSOE's spell checker picked up anything but it didn't.

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anything but it didn't.

Well MSOLE sucks because "communications" is spelled wrong.

"Security Communicatons, Inc."

It's probably just overwhelmed dealing with all my typos. I can spell fine. I just can't tpye. :^)

I believe the spellcheck ignores capitalized words by default. Reterded way to configure a program really. :)

Although it can be corrected in Word, probably through OE too.

I have mine set to only ignore quoted replies and URLs. It still misses a lot of errors. There's a setting to use Word to compose but it's too slow and Word imposes its own clunky styles on the post.

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anything but it didn't.

Doesn't surprise me.

There are at least two that are painfully obvious: "companys" in the subject, and "communicatons" in the company name in the signature.

I mean hell, if you can't even spell your own companys(sic) name correctly...

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious?

Well, as long as she says it loud enough, at least she'll always sound precocious!

secure15 wrote:

Yep! Once i said to me girl and now me girl's me wife!!

Technically, that's not a real word. AFAIK, the longest real word in the language is antidisestablishmentarianism.

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

-adjective (used as a nonsense word by children to express approval or to represent the longest word in English.)

Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc.

Try Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis or Floccinaucinihilipilification or even Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

And for that matter, from

------------ Critics' belief that the word itself has obscure origins has created some debate about when it was first used historically. According to Robert B. Sherman, co-writer of the song with his brother, Richard, the word was created mostly out of double-talk.

Roots of the word have been defined, as Richard Lederer writes in his book Crazy English as follows: super- "above," cali- "beauty," fragilistic- "delicate," expiali- "to atone," and docious- "educable," with the sum of these parts signifying roughly "Atoning for educatability through delicate beauty." This explication of its connotations suits the fictional character of Mary Poppins, in that she presents herself as both superlatively beautiful and also supremely intelligent and capable of great achievements.

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("Explication" - interesting word ;)

Also, according to

------------ Major dictionaries

The longest word in any major English language dictionary is pneumono­ultra­micro­scopic­silico­volcano­coniosis, a 45-letter word that refers to a lung disease contracted from the inhalation of fine silica dust. Research has discovered that this word was originally intended as a hoax. It has since been used in a close approximation of its originally intended meaning, lending at least some degree of validity to its claim.

The Oxford English Dictionary contains pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (30 letters).

The longest non-technical word in major dictionaires is flocci­nauci­nihili­pili­fication at 29 letters. Consisting of a series of Latin words meaning "nothing" and defined as "the act of estimating something as worthless," its usage has been recorded as far back as 1741. In recent times its usage has been recorded in the proceedings of the United States Senate by Senator Robert Byrd, and at the White House by Bill Clinton's press secretary Mike McCurry, albeit sarcastically.

Other notable long words

Anti­dis­establishment­arianism (a nineteenth century movement in England opposed to the separation of church and state) at 28 letters is still in colloquial currency for being one of the longest words in the English language.

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So there. Bass needs a new copy of the Guiness Book of World Records.

OMG! Imagine the poor folks from Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch trying to fill out immigration forms where you have to enter your home address about fifty times. :^)