Spelling errors
Apr 22, 2006 | 5:15 am
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Spelling errors
I for one would appreciate a spellcheck tool.
Apr 22, 2006 | 1:11 pm
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My tail gets twisted
STILL when I see the "it's" vs "its" 
mess that has proliferated in e-mail, newsgroups, electronic bulletin boards and elsewhere, but I'm gradually adjusting to the confusion. 
What I can't bear to countenance is the "then/than" misuse in the writings of obviously otherwise well-informed appearing in FT. "Then" is an adverb; "than" is a conjunction, and ne'er the two shall meet.
I doubt a spell-checker is what's needed; I'd favor a grammar-checker if I knew of one friendly or efficient enough to consider...
mess that has proliferated in e-mail, newsgroups, electronic bulletin boards and elsewhere, but I'm gradually adjusting to the confusion. What I can't bear to countenance is the "then/than" misuse in the writings of obviously otherwise well-informed appearing in FT. "Then" is an adverb; "than" is a conjunction, and ne'er the two shall meet.
I doubt a spell-checker is what's needed; I'd favor a grammar-checker if I knew of one friendly or efficient enough to consider...
Apr 27, 2006 | 4:00 am
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Download iespell (free)
And google now has a UBB spell checker on their toolbar.
And google now has a UBB spell checker on their toolbar.
Apr 27, 2006 | 6:56 am
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Originally Posted by dcutcher
STILL when I see the "it's" vs "its" mess that has proliferated in e-mail, newsgroups, electronic bulletin boards and elsewhere, but I'm gradually adjusting to the confusion.
What I can't bear to countenance is the "then/than" misuse in the writings of obviously otherwise well-informed appearing in FT. "Then" is an adverb; "than" is a conjunction, and ne'er the two shall meet.
I doubt a spell-checker is what's needed; I'd favor a grammar-checker if I knew of one friendly or efficient enough to consider...
mess that has proliferated in e-mail, newsgroups, electronic bulletin boards and elsewhere, but I'm gradually adjusting to the confusion. What I can't bear to countenance is the "then/than" misuse in the writings of obviously otherwise well-informed appearing in FT. "Then" is an adverb; "than" is a conjunction, and ne'er the two shall meet.
I doubt a spell-checker is what's needed; I'd favor a grammar-checker if I knew of one friendly or efficient enough to consider...
Trouble with spell checkers is, as has also been beaten to death in lots of places, is that they're (not "there," not "their") of no help at all (not "awl") when the mistake is a correctly spelled word, just not the one the poster meant to use (not "yews" or "ewes").
I could fill several pages with the mistakes my students hand in when they let Word not only catch their spelling errors but also decide how to fix them. A "multinational corporation with facilities in multiple lactations" comes to mind.
Last edited by Efrem; Apr 27, 2006 at 11:07 am Reason: To fix typo noted by ozstamps in next post - thanks, Glen!
Apr 27, 2006 | 10:08 am
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Originally Posted by Efrem
My pet peeve is "loose" for "lose." However, the grammatical and related failings of FTers (seldom those of the poster, of course) have been beated to death in a lot (not "alot") of other threads.
Apr 27, 2006 | 6:58 pm
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And how about "here, here?" Or "complementary upgrades?" Or "talking discretely?" None of these would be caught by a grammar checker or a spelling checker.
Apr 27, 2006 | 7:09 pm
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Originally Posted by ozstamps
Download iespell (free)
And google now has a UBB spell checker on their toolbar.
And google now has a UBB spell checker on their toolbar.
Shouldn't that be "Google now have a UBB spell checker on their toolbar" (in the British/Australian usage)?
Apr 27, 2006 | 9:03 pm
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Originally Posted by vasantn
And how about "here, here?" Or "complementary upgrades?" Or "talking discretely?" None of these would be caught by a grammar checker or a spelling checker.