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Tami <kd5rju@wb5aoh.dyndns.org> writes:

> But yesterday and today I got completely tied into a mental knot over the word
> "surveillance".

How did you spell it?
I find M-$ usually does a pretty good guess.
It comes up with the right answer for these:

survalence
sirveilance

Google search is pretty good too.

-- 
Dan Espen