Anyone who has used Microsoft Word is familiar with the word processing software's spellcheck function, and we all know that the squiggly red line underneath our word indicates that the little man in the computer has an alternate suggestion. As we use the software more and more, we may come to think that there is something more going on than a simple check of spelling, that Word is trying to tell us something. And over time, we come to see Word's spellcheck as occasionally wise, maybe prescient, frequently witty and every so often kind of a dick.

Anyway, we typed in a few words that might be familiar to someone from the South Bay and beyond, just to see what Word had to say:

Metlox = Maalox

AES = apes

Palos Verdes = pale verses

Sharkeez = shirked

Del Amo = Del Amok

Aldinger = malinger

Bowen = bowel

Reggie = reggae

Bobko = booboo

Aspel = ample

Drevno = drano

Catano = catnap

Bisno = bison

El Porto = El Porno

Walteria = watery

Madrona = Madonna

Narbonne = jawbone

Anza = Nazi

Hahn = haha

Nakano = napkin

Mobil = moil

Pettibon = potion

Leuzinger = lousing

Adelphia = Adolph

Rumsfeld = rusted

Krispy Kreme = Crispy Crime

-- Garrison Frost

(Sept. 15, 2006)

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