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Spell Checker

Pokey

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Everybody's spelling is so good, seriously, how do you'all handle spell checking in your posts? 😀
 
I give the post a quick once-over and then click reply. If I do slip up, you'll see an edit ~30 seconds later 🙂.
 
In windows I use QuickSpell. It auto checks you spelling as you type in any program.

On panther I just use the built in spell checker. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: MDE
I give the post a quick once-over and then click reply. If I do slip up, you'll see an edit ~30 seconds later 🙂.
Same here. I learned to spell relatively well in school, so usually I find more typos than outright spelling mistakes. Plus, if I didn't know how to spell a word, do you think I'd notice it in my quick once-over? 😱

Of course, I'd love to be able to run my posts through a spelling checker, but evidently Mozilla doesn't have some of the "conveniences" that IE has in the area of plugins (including the convenient capability of installing toolbars and adware that you don't want 😛). Oh well, supposedly in a future version of Mozilla this kind of thing will be built in.

My actual problem lies with my grammar, not particularly my spelling. However, since most people aren't highschool or college English teachers, most do not notice. 😉 😀
 
If, in the rare event that I want to use a word I don't know how to spell, I'll look it up. Typoes I usually notice as I make them, or I edit if one gets through 😛
 
Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.
 
I don't use any spell checker, but I don't write without any mistakes..
My native language is Dutch, which is not usable on these forums 😉

Nice poem Confused! 😀
 
This is great actually. I am glad to know there is a way to spell check in IE which I intend to try.

It is funny, I am a notoriously bad speller, but I usually know when something is misspelled. At those times I will use MS Word, but that's a pain to have to open a new window just to put a word into for checking.

I like the poem Confused............ 😛

I have in fact experienced some of those spell check snafu's...........😀 but usually my tag line is "thank goodness for the spell checker" 😛

Thanks everyone. :thumbsup:
 
Nice poem Confused!

I cant' spell either, but can usually tell if it's mispelled, funny ain't it. If it's important, I use MS Word, (or ask my excellent speller son). If it's not importent, and I don't care if it's misspelled, like here, I don't bother. Grammar and where commas go, forget it !?!

Internetese?
 
Uhm, spell-checking? 😱

Well, I'm mostly not getting complaints on the wording... Besides, AFAIK my biggest problem is then/when and the like, and no spell-checkers would fix this. 😉
 
I use dictionary.com sometimes but usually I don't give a crap. This thread probably wasn't directed at me.😉

Something for all you perfectionists to ponder:

Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
 
Originally posted by: Baldy18
Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
But nedelses to say, it's been petrty feraikng anynonig to see poelpe psotnig the smae dman tihng oevr and oevr aigan sncie tihs trhaed satretd. 😉
 
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