Apparently “Obama” and “Barack” were added to Microsoft’s Word dictionary in 2007.

Much as one is relieved that the new messiah now has a place in Microsoft, this is not the important point: the important and profoundly irritating thing is that Microsoft persists on calling it a “spell checker”.

As every good wiccan knows, a “spell checker” is the arcane tome used by budding and maladroit witches to double, double toil and trouble check their efforts before fire burn, and cauldron bubble.

What Microsoft has is spelling checker.