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From: palmer@tybalt.caltech.edu (David Palmer)
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Subject: Re: Bug in Word 3.01!
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Date: Fri, 31-Jul-87 12:26:14 EDT
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In article <6856@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> hallett@hamlet.UUCP (Hallett) writes:
>In article <3410@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> palmer@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP 
>       (David Palmer) writes:
>>I have had my copy of Word 3.01 for almost an hour now.
>
>Gee, how long has Microsoft been shipping 3.01??  Haven't gotten mine
>yet.

More than an hour, less than a week.

>>The spelling checker does not recognize the words 'hoses' and 'noses'
>>even though they are in the dictionary.  ('roses' and 'poses' are
>>recognized however.)  Moreover, the 'suggest'ed replacement for
>>'hoses' is 'hoses', but the replacement for 'noses' is noose.
>
>How strange.  Did it work in 3.0?

No it didn't, which is why it was the first thing I tried.

On the positive note, the word na:ive (where :i represents an
i with diereses (double dots) over it) is no longer broken
up into 'na' and ':ive'.  (Word 2.0 treated ':o' properly,
but not ':i')

			David Palmer
			palmer@tybalt.caltech.edu