An amusing post from Language Log, about the ill wind that blows for people who trust their spell checkers too much.
As you might have guessed, what Edwards actually said in the debate was “Highfalutin language is not enough.” The word highfalutin should be in any decent spellchecker’s wordlist, but if it is written as two words, high falutin, then the second element of the compound can go unrecognized.
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