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No 317 of an occasional series.... Why is it that the spellchecker in MS Word 97 always suggests "offal" as a replacement for OFTEL? And when it comes across Dixons it always prompts "dioxins" as a toxic surrogate. Is this a display of artificial intelligence stored somewhere in the humble WP package…or does it just have a sense of humour? ®

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