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kens • today at 5:12 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

> "They were the ones who caught the mistakes that no spell chequer could."

I thought that maybe "spell chequer" was the valid British term, which would be interesting, so I searched but it isn't. It turns out that the joke here is that "chequer" is a valid British word, so a word-based spell checker won't flag "spell chequer", so it's self-referential. I see why people found his jokes actively confusing.


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patrickmay • today at 6:54 PM

Agreed, and yet I liked it.