Bug of the Month

July 19 97 / Bits / Bug of the Month

Substitute Sex for Sleep

Is sex a good substitute for sleep? BYTE reader Dilip Sampath Kumar reports that when using Microsoft Word 7.0 to spell-check a document that had the nonword "zzzz" (which, although not a word, is commonly used to represent sleep in American slang and comic strips ), the spelling checker recommends replacing it with the word "sex." The not-so-subliminal suggestion happens only with four Zs.
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