Candidate for a Pullet Surprise
By Jerrold H. Zar and Mark Eckman (Title by Pamela Brown)
Although this was written in the 1990s, it’s even more relevant today. It uses lots of homophones to show how spell checkers can be fooled, and make you look like a fool!
With our strong dependence on technology today, there’s as much need as ever to know how to speak and spell correctly and not rely solely on your phone or computer to clean things up for you. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve used text typing on my phone only to hit send before reading what it thinks I said.
You can learn how to use talk text more effectively in this book, which you can get here: Buy it on Amazon. Here’s the clever poem to illustrate the point of not only relying on a spell checker:
Candidate for a Pullet Surprise
I have a spelling checker.
It came with my PC.
It plane lee marks four my revue
Miss steaks aye can knot sea.
Eye ran this poem threw it,
Your sure reel glad two no.
Its vary polished in it’s weigh,
My checker tolled me sew.
A checker is a bless sing,
It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me right awl stiles two reed,
And aides me when aye rime.
Each frays come posed up on my screen
Eye trussed to bee a joule
The checker poured o’er every word
To cheque sum spelling rule.
Be fore a veiling checkers
Hour spelling mite decline,
And if were lacks or have a laps,
We wood be maid to wine.
Butt now bee cause my spelling
Is checked with such grate flare,
Their are know faults with in my cite,
Of none eye am a wear.
Now spelling does knot phase me,
It does knot bring a tier.
My pay purrs awl due glad den
With wrapped words fare as hear.
To rite with care is quite a feet
Of witch won should be proud.
And wee mussed dew the best wee can,
Sew flaws are knot aloud.
Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays
Such soft ware for pea seas,
And why I brake in two averse
By righting wants too pleas.
Learn how to use talk text in the book: Smarten the F*ck Up!
Smarten the F*ck Up! uses plain English and humor to help people fix the common mistakes they’ve been making their entire lives.