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[WTMHouston]

An interesting bug or "feature" I found a little while ago in the speel chucker.

If a post contains "ithout" standing alone, then the spell checker says that the "ithout" portion of the word "without" is misspelled. Once the "ithout" is removed as a stand alone word, then the spell checker recognizes "without" as a properly spelled word.

To see the problem, just cut and past this post into a new message box and run it through the spell checker.

Edit -- the same thing appears to work when any portion of a word shows up as a stand alone misspelled word. For example, I was able to get it to do the same thing by putting "watch" and "atch" in the same post.

Weird.