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By Anita Garner<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Spellcheck and my book manuscript don’t speak the same language.\u00a0 Spellcheck can handle “y’all” and “ain’t” but\u00a0 I write a conversation from the Deep South in the 1950’s and Spellcheck lays down squiggly red lines.<\/p>\n

Evangelists outside a tent revival meeting look up at the crop duster they hired to drop leaflets and one of them says,<\/p>\n

“Well now he’s just showin’ out.”\u00a0 Spellcheck wants him to say “showing off” but of course he wouldn’t.<\/p>\n

Another place Spellcheck and I tussle is when I type lyrics to songs Mother recorded, and I spell them out the way she sang them. I never saw anybody in an audience who didn’t understand what she meant, but Spellcheck would like them fixed.<\/p>\n

All through the editing process,\u00a0 we make a million stops together with Spellcheck asking are you sure and me saying, I really meant it.\u00a0 I type the name of this song I’m about to link for you. Spelllcheck asks would you like to correct it?\u00a0 I say no thank you. I ain’t messin’ with Sister Fern.\u00a0 I didn’t mess with her when she walked amongst us, and I ain’t about to start now.<\/p>\n

In this song,\u00a0 she gets wound up and I can see Spellcheck about ready to give up. “Furthermore” is fuh’-tha-more and she’s got her own version of boogeyman.\u00a0 You’ll catch it.<\/p>\n

You Ain’t Got Nothin’<\/a><\/p>\n

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