Oh, Microsoft Word, how you are crazy. Let me count the ways...
Yeah, yeah, everyone's always ripping on Word and I'm usually just thinking "whatever, at least it's not a typewriter." But, it's finally my turn to complain.
I'm writing an abstract for a conference and I write this phrase (as part of a sentence...it comes after a semicolon):
He acts only as an arbitrator, thus acknowledging there is an authoritative power he cannot supercede.
Oooo, pretty...right? But wait, what's that there? There is a green squiggly line underneath the final word! I right click the word to see what is wrong as I just KNOW I spelled it correctly. And whaddya know? It's not a standard word, apparently.
Ummm, kay. Sure.... **backs away slowly**
Hey, pssst...the people who put together the Word grammar check are really stupid. I mean. I knew they were dumb, but that's pretty bad.
Edit: So, R informed me that even though many of us spell supercede with a "c", the dictionary has it with an s: supersede. That still doesn't explain why I didn't have a red squiggly line underneath the word (for a spelling mistake). Green squigglies are for grammar or formatting. So, I'm not as smart as I thought I was, but the Word people are still stupid. We all win!
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Indeed! ROCK ON!
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