Warning: Spell checker ahead

GaryVincent | 07 September, 2006 20:03 | (1170)

Taking the charitable road, we'll blame three recent "oops!" in the pages of the Telegraph on the fact that the best spell checker ever written is often helpless when faced by the quirks in our native language.

One of these was pointed out in a letter to the editor, which observed that in a sports story, the word "duel" was used where "dual" was intended. The letter included some witty speculation about scenarios where "duel" would have beencorrect. 

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