A few of you have written in to question whether that newspaper item that confused the word "moot" with "mute" was really a typo. They all thought it was actually a matter of some reporter not knowing the difference between the two words, which would not be a typo, per se. Perhaps. But in these days of spell-checkers, it's not at all odd for someone to type the correct word and then not notice when the spell-checker "corrects" it into the wrong word. That's happened to me on occasion and I have to tell you, it really passes me off.