{"id":3585,"date":"2014-02-02T12:25:22","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T12:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=3585"},"modified":"2014-02-02T12:25:22","modified_gmt":"2014-02-02T12:25:22","slug":"bristol-post-balls-the-broken-spellcheck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=3585","title":{"rendered":"Bristol Post Balls &#8211; the broken spellcheck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One really has to admire the journalists at the Bristol Post, getting the news out to the public 6 days a week, sometimes in the face of extreme adversity.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, a Sunday morning is a bad time for the spellchecking software to have a dicky fit. After all, no IT support will be available until Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Never mind, in the absence of a spellchecker, the Post&#8217;s Geoff Bennett ploughed valiantly on to produce <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/High-water-Bristol-flood-defences-hold\/story-20545444-detail\/story.html\">this report<\/a>, part of which is shown in the screenshot below.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2014\/02\/spoekesman.png\" alt=\"screenshot of Bristol Post article\" width=\"464\" height=\"550\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3586\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2014\/02\/spoekesman.png 464w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2014\/02\/spoekesman-253x300.png 253w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 464px) 100vw, 464px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>How long will it take before &#8216;spoekesman&#8217;, &#8216;reeasonably&#8217;  and &#8216;spercial&#8217; are added to the Oxford English dictionary?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One really has to admire the journalists at the Bristol Post, getting the news out to the public 6 days a week, sometimes in the face of extreme adversity. For instance, a Sunday morning is a bad time for the spellchecking software to have a dicky fit. After all, no IT support will be available [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3,32],"tags":[40,16,22,33],"class_list":["post-3585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-media","tag-bristol","tag-english-usage","tag-language","tag-media-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3587,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3585\/revisions\/3587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}