gor[b] Paul Gorbould: Words and Pictures

Uninformed

Last week my boss discovered an(other) amusing deficiency in Microsoft Word.

Open MS Word, and type the word "information". Then look for a synonym using the built-in thesaurus.

You are offered:

• in order
• in sequence
• in turn
• in rank
• in a row

Not what I was looking for. If you look up "information" elsewhere, say, answers.com, you get words like "knowledge", "intelligence", "facts" and "data". Look any of those up in MS Word, and you get "information" as the first synonym.

I was kinda hoping "knowledge" would say "be acquainted with a protuberance"...