{"id":1677,"date":"2009-01-02T20:50:58","date_gmt":"2009-01-03T00:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=1677"},"modified":"2009-01-02T20:50:58","modified_gmt":"2009-01-03T00:50:58","slug":"words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/words\/","title":{"rendered":"Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently &#8220;Obama&#8221; and &#8220;Barack&#8221; were added to Microsoft&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2206973\/\" target=\"_blank\">Word dictionar<\/a>y in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Much as one is relieved that the new messiah now has a place in Microsoft, this is not the important point: the important and profoundly irritating thing is that Microsoft persists on calling it a &#8220;spell checker&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>As every good wiccan knows, a &#8220;spell checker&#8221; is the arcane tome used by budding and maladroit witches to <em>double, double toil and trouble<\/em> check their efforts before <em>fire burn, and cauldron bubble<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>What Microsoft has is spelling checker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently &#8220;Obama&#8221; and &#8220;Barack&#8221; were added to Microsoft&#8217;s Word dictionary in 2007. Much as one is relieved that the new messiah now has a place in Microsoft, this is not the important point: the important and profoundly irritating thing is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/words\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-manners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}