"Spell Check" -- first thought to be a handy computer feature to help us use the correct letters in the proper order for word formation--often goes haywire.
Like oft-discussed Ar- tificial Intelligence (AI is the abbreviation, despite my thinking it to be short for “Alfred” in the early going), it can be dead wrong, redden faces and run far afield from what is intended. This may be true when the name of our current hometown--Burleson, TX, where we have domiciled in semi-retirement since 2002--is typed.... ***** Burleson had hardly gotten the “sleepy” rubbed from its eyes when we moved into our modest tract home on a cul-de-sac near Interstate Highway 35W. Longtime residents at the time bragged about the community’s immense growth, its population reaching 20,000 shortly before the turn of the century.
Old-timers rattled on about memories of one traffic light, a couple of eating places and it being the “crepe myrtle capital” of Texas. Many comments seemed trivial, usually trailing off to other topics like grandchildren and the weather. (Similarly, Brownwood, TX, where I grew up, once was known as “the feather duster capital of the world,” to which millions of deceased turkeys might attest.)
