Diabolism disables tribalism....

[davidgillon]

I've just spell-checked a comment in which I was talking about how society is in denial about disablism -- discrimination on the grounds of disability -- and thought it was terribly ironic to be presented with the following options for 'correcting' my spelling:



disablism: diabolism, disables, tribalism

disablist:   disables, disability, disabled, dismalest, disabused, stablest, disability's



I know that the US uses 'ablism' for the same construct, but when even the speel-chucker is in denial it  sort of sums up just how far we have to go. You could even say the situation is diabolical <sigh>...

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[lisy-babe.livejournal.com]

That I've not come across a single spellchecker with "Paralympic(s)" in its dictionary, despite the fact that they all contain "Olympic(s)" makes me homicidal.