Acknowledgements

Double-checking spellchecking

I put valiant effort into verifying the ostensibly Canadian spellings included in computer spellcheckers. But other people did some of that work, too.

First, thanks to Laurie McArthur of the Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, University of Toronto, who arranged for me to set foot on an alien landscape and use Word 2007 under Windows Vista – without question the most confusing software in my 30 years of personal-computer usage. I ran my own tests of the Mac OS X built-in spellchecker (twice) and Word 2002 for Windows.

Simon Daniels of Microsoft Typography, at my request, ran his own test of Word 2007. Mili Carr and James Hatley tested InDesign CS3. Sanford Miller spellchecked under WordPerfect.

I’ve had some supporters along the way in this endeavour, but not many. I do, however, wish to thank everyone who bought Version 1.0 of this book.