It might be that "asshole" is a restricted word and is only to be used by
members of the appropriate union, or who have the appropriate license to use
magic words.  I worked for a while in the Lithography trade, we used "shit" as a
technical term and there were many specific kinds of shit and they had specific
remedies...except when some one's work was described as shit...then remedies
were not necessarily specific, but generally unpleasant.

Ralph Walter wrote:

> In a message dated 4/25/2000 10:02:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> << nice to see that nebbish is recognized by spellchecker. >>
>
> In Canada, yet!  So why doesn't my spellcheck recognize some of the, uh,
> technical construction industry terms I use (like "asshole," etc?)  Perhaps a
> regional thing?  Canadian spellcheck knows Yiddish, New York spellcheck
> doesn't know "asshole?"
>
> Somebody better disintegrate Bill, vertically and horizontally.
>
> Ralph
>
> Ralph