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I was determined to beat the living snot out of my spell checker. It couldn’t go on this way. “He” interrupted or interfered with every document I wrote, finding fault with nothing, or missing obvious spelling errors that a child copy editor would have caught and that an old spell checker would have pounced on. If I typed “prescient,” meaning foreknowledge, “he” changed it to present, as in a shoe full of coal under the Christmas tree, have a merry. I like to dabble in wordplay (all we true lefties do — in fact, you can often tell who’s undercover because the narcs are way too literal and make your forehead squinch, you thinking, Is “he” pulling my chain?) and I come up with the” occasional neologism, such as Peppershnippel, which made it into the Urban Dictionary, so you know it’s legit. The word refers to …