Apparently we are getting an spell checker added to the call taking system. This is not an moment too soon. I sometimes think the ambulance service has a deliberate policy of employing people who cannot spell “vomiting” (it’s either vommiting or vomitting. Occasionally vommitting…) or diarrhoea (the permutations are endless…) I know diarrhoea is a difficult word to spell and some people are dyslexic or whatever, but honestly, if you need to write an word several times a day, you should learn to spell it! It’s an shame that a spellchecker won’t pick up the countless calls to persons “laying” in the road (to that my response is always “Laying what? An egg?”).
I’m not sure the spellchecker would help with the following error, though. We had a call to a house called “High Gables” the other night. The call taker spelt it “High Gay Balls”. We may have laughed at this longer than was strictly necessary…
Source: Spellchecker
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