Of course phonics work...
Liza Sabater
This comes courtesy of Dyslexic.com
(<http://www.dyslexic.com/database/articles/crazyeng.html>http://www.dyslexic.com/database/articles/crazyeng.html).
If you have a Mac, have it read back to you --it will prove that
yes,indeed, phonics do work ;-)
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AN OWED TO THE SPELL CHEQUER
(CANDIDATE FOR A PULLET SURPRISE)
by Dr Jerrold H. Zar of Northern Illinois University
(Reproduced from <http://www.jir.com/>The Journal of Irreproducible
Results as quoted on <http://www.spellzone.com/>Spellzone. It is
actually copyright, although to see the number of quoted occurrences
on the internet, you would never expect it. The staff of the JIR
moved to <http://www.improbable.com/>The Annals of Improbable
Research whose web site is good for a scientific laugh and who
organize the Ig Nobel awards.)
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 eye rime.
Each frays come posed up on my screen
Eye trussed too bee a joule.
The checker pours o'er every word
To cheque sum spelling rule.
Bee fore a veiling checker's
Hour spelling mite decline,
And if we're lacks oar have a laps,
We wood bee maid too wine.
Butt now bee cause my spelling
Is checked with such grate flare,
Their are know fault's with in my cite,
Of nun 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 word's fare as hear.
To rite with care is quite a feet
Of witch won should bee proud,
And wee mussed dew the best wee can,
Sew flaw's are knot aloud.
Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays
Such soft wear four pea seas,
And why eye brake in two averse
Buy righting want too pleas.
There are 25 mistakes in the title and the first two verses of this
poem - but as they are all real words, the computer spell checker
would not spot them. The complete poem has (by the author's count)
225 words, 127 of which are wrong but would not be picked out by a
spell checker.
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(<http://www.dyslexic.com/database/articles/crazyeng.html>http://www.dyslexic.com/database/articles/crazyeng.html).
If you have a Mac, have it read back to you --it will prove that
yes,indeed, phonics do work ;-)
************************************************************
AN OWED TO THE SPELL CHEQUER
(CANDIDATE FOR A PULLET SURPRISE)
by Dr Jerrold H. Zar of Northern Illinois University
(Reproduced from <http://www.jir.com/>The Journal of Irreproducible
Results as quoted on <http://www.spellzone.com/>Spellzone. It is
actually copyright, although to see the number of quoted occurrences
on the internet, you would never expect it. The staff of the JIR
moved to <http://www.improbable.com/>The Annals of Improbable
Research whose web site is good for a scientific laugh and who
organize the Ig Nobel awards.)
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 eye rime.
Each frays come posed up on my screen
Eye trussed too bee a joule.
The checker pours o'er every word
To cheque sum spelling rule.
Bee fore a veiling checker's
Hour spelling mite decline,
And if we're lacks oar have a laps,
We wood bee maid too wine.
Butt now bee cause my spelling
Is checked with such grate flare,
Their are know fault's with in my cite,
Of nun 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 word's fare as hear.
To rite with care is quite a feet
Of witch won should bee proud,
And wee mussed dew the best wee can,
Sew flaw's are knot aloud.
Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays
Such soft wear four pea seas,
And why eye brake in two averse
Buy righting want too pleas.
There are 25 mistakes in the title and the first two verses of this
poem - but as they are all real words, the computer spell checker
would not spot them. The complete poem has (by the author's count)
225 words, 127 of which are wrong but would not be picked out by a
spell checker.
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In a message dated 7/31/02 11:54:31 PM Central Daylight Time,
liza@... writes:
~Nancy
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liza@... writes:
> AN OWED TO THE SPELL CHEQUERThose were great Liza! <veg>
>
> (CANDIDATE FOR A PULLET SURPRISE)
~Nancy
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