Affricated American

Sometimes I think the spell-check function in whatever application I’m using just ain’t hep. It’s likeGoofy_beard_004
whoever programmed it never actually spoke any English, but read about it in a book.

I was reminded of that again today, when I told Michael Graham via e-mail in Outlook that having me on his radio show via phone before 9:30 a.m. tomorrow is risky, because I am not fully caffeinated before that time.

The spell check really, really didn’t know what to make of "caffeinated." It only had one guess. That guess was "affricated," a word I had neither met nor worked with previously. Even after I looked it up, I’m not entirely sure what the fricative it’s supposed to mean. Ironically, given what I said above, it is apparently a word you will only understand if you hear what it describes, in actual speech.

Strange, very strange.

8 thoughts on “Affricated American”

  1. bill

    My spell check works on caffeinated.It works on Viagra but not Cialis.Am I spelling it wrong? Not that I would ever need that stuff.
    Sorry,I won’t be listening to the radio show.That guy’s nuts.But I think we’re all bozos on this bus.

  2. George Chisenhall

    Ok, I read the definition of affricated, and I still don’t know what it means. But my spell doesn’t seem to know it. But it does know caffeinated. I guess the programmer for the Firefox / Thunderbird applications was more realistic in his programming.

  3. weldon VII

    It’s a stop and a fricative,
    But that’s not too explicative.
    And that’s just what you said.
    The movement you need is on your shoulders.

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