{"id":1262,"date":"2011-08-30T14:06:05","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T18:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/?p=1262"},"modified":"2011-08-30T14:06:05","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T18:06:05","slug":"eye-halve-a-spelling-chequer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/2011\/08\/30\/eye-halve-a-spelling-chequer\/","title":{"rendered":"Eye halve a spelling chequer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an old favorite. I figured I&#8217;d preserve it here so I could link to it from elsewhere with the assurance that it wouldn&#8217;t drop out from under me.<\/p>\n<p>Sauce unknown. Lost to the ages, I guess. Have fun. Or not.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Eye Halve a Spelling Chequer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have a spelling checker.<br \/>\nIt came with my pea sea.<br \/>\nIt plane lee marks four my revue<br \/>\nMiss steaks aye can knot sea.<\/p>\n<p>Eye ran this poem threw it,<br \/>\nYour sure reel glad two no.<br \/>\nIts vary polished in it&#8217;s weigh.<br \/>\nMy checker tolled me sew.<\/p>\n<p>A checker is a bless sing,<br \/>\nIt freeze yew lodes of thyme.<br \/>\nIt helps me right awl stiles two reed,<br \/>\nAnd aides me when I rime.<\/p>\n<p>Each frays come posed up on my screen<br \/>\neye trussed too bee a joule.<br \/>\nThe checker pours o&#8217;er every word<br \/>\nTo cheque sum spelling rule.<\/p>\n<p>Bee fore a veiling checker&#8217;s Hour<br \/>\nspelling mite decline,<br \/>\nAnd if we&#8217;re lacks oar have a laps,<br \/>\nWe wood bee maid too wine.<\/p>\n<p>Butt now bee cause my spelling<br \/>\nIs checked with such grate flair,<br \/>\nTheir are no fault&#8217;s with in my cite,<br \/>\nOf nun eye am a ware.<\/p>\n<p>Now spelling does knot phase me,<br \/>\nIt does knot bring a tier.<br \/>\nMy pay purrs awl due glad den<br \/>\nWith wrapped word&#8217;s fare as hear.<\/p>\n<p>To rite with care is quite a feet<br \/>\nOf witch won should be proud,<br \/>\nAnd wee mussed dew the best wee can,<br \/>\nSew flaw&#8217;s are knot aloud.<\/p>\n<p>Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays,<br \/>\nSuch soft wear four pea seas,<br \/>\nAnd why eye brake in two averse<br \/>\nBuy righting too pleas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an old favorite. I figured I&#8217;d preserve it here so I could link to it from elsewhere with the assurance that it wouldn&#8217;t drop out from under me. Sauce unknown. Lost to the ages, I guess. Have fun. Or not. Eye Halve a Spelling Chequer I have a spelling checker. It came with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/2011\/08\/30\/eye-halve-a-spelling-chequer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Eye halve a spelling chequer<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}