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From: "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com>
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Subject: Re: Misspelling Can Bite You
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 13:21:14 -0700
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Dr. J said:

> Code could be added to pick out cases where two adjacent words are
> unreasonably similar.


Dr J and Gene:

    This morning I was caught (and mislead) by the following set of two 
statements:

    var rgn = document.getElementById("iselectrgn") ;
    var rgnopts = rgn.getElementsByTagname("option") ;

    Because I *thought* I had checked the statements thoroughly, I looked 
everywhere *after* this set, and finally went back and checked them again 
letter-by-letter, and then ...

-Mel Smith