Saturday, July 03, 2004
Well, which is it?
Is it:


Ten years ago, Professor Jerrold Zar composed a brilliant poem, which he called Candidate for a Pullet Surprise. Here’s the first verse:
I have a spelling checker,
It came with my PC.
It plane lee marks four my revue
Miss steaks aye can knot sea.
Since then, thousands of readers around the world have chuckled over the poem and emailed it to their friends. It’s also a favourite on the internet. Google has some 1420 references to it on websites which have copied the original words, or posted versions amended by various wits and halfwits. Some have retitled it as Owed to a Spelling Checker or Spellbound. Many webmasters have added Unknown author, or Anon. One says Sauce unknown.
Here is the complete, official version, published with the author’s kind permission