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Insights from spell-check

Economic growth, Leverage
By Paul Hodges on 10-Dec-2008

A long-standing industry friend sent me an email overnight about ethylene derivative margins. Only after sending it, did he realise that spell-check had decided to change the word “derivative” to “debilitative”. But as he noted in a follow-up email, “amazing the insights of a spellchecker – I meant ‘derivative’ but maybe ‘debilitative’ is more of a commentary on the current situation…”