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Fatcat? We had a Fatcat at our detachment in Vietnam back in ’70 (Det 8/330 RRC, Pleiku). Name was because she was preggers.
She also liked to drag in lunch. She, however, wouldn’t present them, she’d just drag them behind a box of incendiary grenades we had on the floor near the map board and munch. Kinda creepy.
When she gave birth we had several kitties running around, but I don’t remember what happened to them. (Her nest wasn’t in our shop, a quonset hut, but outside somewhere.)

For years I’ve been right-clicking on wavy red line words and adding them to my personal dictionary spelled the way *I* want to spell them. I bet if I could look through that list today I’d find some very, very odd things.

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Heh! At least in Opera, there’s a place in Settings that takes me to my custom dictionary word list! What I find surprising is that the oddest things are perfectly good words I had to add. For example, “hoi” and of course “polloi” are in there, as are dystopian, hebephilia, hæmorrhoids, panjandrum, statist, and stratoculumus. I didn’t find any actual “personal” spellings, just a few coinages of my own such as “mohammadman” and “congressvermin”.

“congressvermin”…

Perfect that one with a “k” – “kongressvermin”

@ABPB – I like Kongressvermin! Thanks

Although not a redwavyline word, here’s one I use in order to get around commenting moderation that some may find useful: ¬z

Iscream should be a word too.

If “iscream” then “youscream” should make the cut…

Iscream Youscream
We allscream
For iscream.

@Uncle Am – older books I’ve read sometimes referred to members of Islam as Musselmen. Which the red wavy line elf declares ain’t a word it’s happy about.
I think Mohammedman is perfectly cromulent.

I should like it noted the red wavy line elf is quite happy with “ain’t” though.

@Durnedyankee — In Spanish the word for Muslim is musulman, and in Spanish such words aren’t capitalized.

An older English term is Mohammadan, and I did a mashup to come up with mohammadman, which I use especially for the, ahem, less thoughtful and tolerant members of that group.

Aside: The biggest “tell” about the political stances of the techies running the tech industry is that pretty much all spell checkers recognize “ultraconservative” as a real word but wiggle their digital digits in consternation and despair over the unknown word “ultraliberal”.

@Uncle Al —
Your example is why we should be wary of AI as currently available to the masses. Programs reflect their code. The code reflects the biases of the coders.