Comedy Footprint » e-mail http://www.comedyfootprint.com Your Source for Jokes and Comedy Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:48:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 A Stickler for Spelling http://www.comedyfootprint.com/2009/10/a-stickler-for-spelling/ http://www.comedyfootprint.com/2009/10/a-stickler-for-spelling/#comments Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:54:07 +0000 Stinky http://www.comedyfootprint.com/?p=35 Everyone knows I’m a stickler for good spelling. So, when an associate e-mailed technical documents asking me to “decifer” them, I had to set him straight.

I wrote, “Decipher is spelled with a ph, not an f. In case you’ve forgotten, spell checker comes free with your software.”

A minute later, I got this reply, “Mine must be dephective.”

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