Spillchock erras

The Dark Goddess of Replevin[1] writes amusingly today about the perils of relying on your spell-checkers, oh fellow legalists:

This poor bastard actually submitted an appellate brief in which the phrase “sua sponte” was transmogrified into “sea sponge” at least five times, leading to: “It is well settled that a trial court must instruct sea sponge on any defense, including a mistake of fact defense.”

I don’t even know what “sua sponte” means, but that’s funny. And awful. And negligent (shudder).

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[1] I don’t know what it means, though it is a great name.