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Tales of useless spellcheck suggestions keep coming. "As a teacher in 1990," recalls Michael Downes, of Cronulla, "I had shown my principal how to use a word processor. He asked about spellcheck – much less sophisticated in those days. I showed him, but advised him to use it carefully. A week later, he showed me a letter he'd composed to his boss, a Mrs Vicki Tanzer. The spellchecker had renamed her Mrs Vicissitude Tantrums. Luckily, he had followed my advice to proofread."