2011-07-28

Losing "RN"

The other day, I read a hilarious article online. Hilarious, because the editor had failed to correct a huge error, caused by the spellchecker systematically going through the entire document and deleting every instance of "rn" throughout the article. Somebody'd pressed "Replace All" and the editor clearly did not read the item, because every other paragraph seemed to contain a word with "rn" in it somewhere, which the error had reduced to some hilarious new abbreviation.

The following words:-

barn
barns
barnstorm
barnstormed
barnstormer
barnstorming
barnstorms
born
borne
burn
burned
burning
burns
California
churn
churned
churning
churns
cornet
corny
earn
earned
earnest
earnestness
earning
earnings
earns
Ernest
Ernie
external
fern
ferns
Goldarn
hornet
hornets
horny
nornier
horniest
horniness
infernal
inferno
internal
international
internet
journey
learn
learned
learning
learns
lovelorn
morn
mourn
mourned
mourning
mourns
ornithology
porno
pornographer
pornography
scorn
scorned
scorning
scorns
shorn
spurn
spurned
spurning
spurns
superhorny
supernal
supernatural
thorn
thorns
thorny
torn
tornado
turn
turns
turned
turning
warn
warned
warning
warns
worn

become

ba
bas
bastorm
bastormed
bastormer
bastorming
bastorms
bo
boe
bu
bued
buing
bus
Califoia
chu
chued
chuing
chus
coet
coy
ea
eaed
eaest
eaestness
eaing
eaings
eas
Eest
Eie
exteal
fe
fes
Golda
hoet
hoets
hoy
noier
hoiest
hoiness
infeal
infeo
inteal
inteational
inteet
jouey
lea
leaed
leaing
leas
lovelo
mo
mou
moued
mouing
mous
oithology
poo
poographer
poography
sco
scoed
scoing
scos
sho
spu
spued
spuing
spus
superhoy
supeal
supeatural
tho
thos
thoy
to
toado
tu
tus
tued
tuing
wa
waed
waing
was
wo

So think of that, next time you are looking at poography on the inteet, and the news carries some article about the Goveor of Califoia inciting sco from politicians on the inteational stage, and your inteal clock tells you you need to tu in when suddenly you hear the toado alarm outside as the exteal weather tus nasty.

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