> > BTW, this is somewhat off-topic, but did you know that the spell checker in MS Word 97 lets you get away with misspelling the word for a thousand-year period as "millenium"?
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> It also doesn't know the word "chainsaw," as I discovered one day. I didn't realize it was a local slang term, m'self.

Wait-- you're saying your copy of Word marks "chainsaw" as a misspelling? Hm. Now I can't get *that* trick to work on mine...

Then again, I believe that there are two versions of Word's spell checker, for some bizarre reason. "Millenium" *is* marked as a misspelling on my school's computers, for instance...

-- codeman"but after all, isn't spelling a mess in the first place?"38