--- Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> wrote: > I spell reasonably well, and I've used the word in a poem, and I almost > always look up hard words by pasting them into google, which in this case > agreed with me. As someone else has pointed out by implication, Google is a lousy place to find correct spelling. To the extent that it indexes everything on the Web, it indexes every mistake on the Web, of spelling, grammar, fact, etc., etc., etc. I recommend, instead, a good dictionary. Merriam-Webster Online is pretty good and free (http://www.m-w.com/). I keep a link to it in my browser bar. -- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel [This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com