Annoying US English spell check [not a board issue]

[Twig]

Why would you want to taint the Queen's English, MamaBao?!

Well, John, my Spyware Terminator wouldn't let me have iespellcheck. So, proof reading is once again in vogue.

Would love to have a Mac, but I'm afraid my learning curve is flat these days! Hard to learn new tricks at almost 61.

[John T. Folden]

Well, John, my Spyware Terminator wouldn't let me have iespellcheck. So, proof reading is once again in vogue.

Ouch, I hate to complicate matters further but I've seen some rather negative reviews of Spyware Terminator. ...and ieSpell is a perfectly fine app with no spyware included from all reports.

Would love to have a Mac, but I'm afraid my learning curve is flat these days! Hard to learn new tricks at almost 61.

Awww, 61 years young! My mother is nearing 60 now and she just switched over a couple years back. She refused to move from Windows for years until I finally "loaned" her one of my older systems. She has never given it back. It's nice to have little worry of spyware or viruses.

John

[Davin Raincloud]

I'm glad Aussie English is very close to British English.

I too get sick of the Americanised crud down here. Using z's all over the place!

I saw some advertising a small business with the word 'organized' in it! *shudder!*

Is this how culture dies? At the hands of Microsoft word spellcheck?

[Bracken]

Twig said

Why would you want to taint the Queen's English, MamaBao?!

Do you know what? It doesn't actually bother me at all. I think communication is far more important than that. But then I used to teach English as a foreign language in Japan.

Let's just get over it and talk to each other, yes?

I too get sick of the Americanised crud down here.

Hey, Davin. That is American English and it is a totally valid language.

[Davin Raincloud]

Hey, Davin. That is American English and it is a totally valid language.

LOL not down under.

[Lorraine]

They are both valid versions of the language, but if you live in a certain place with one spelling you are probably best off carrying using that version for most of the time. I suppose I feel that if anyone is shaky on spellings in a certain language, it doesn't help in your daily life that a spell check is correcting you in another version. I used to work in a place where all the documentation produced had to be in US English. I had no problem with this as nearly all of our clients were US companies and the documentation was being produced for them, but I don't wish to change the way I spell in the rest of my life. Let's keep language diverse!

At any rate, as has been said above it's nothing to do with this new message board - I simply assumed it at the time because I'd never seen a spell check happening on the old one.

[Twyrch]

I c'aint use no good speakin' 'cause I ain't dun ben taught no learnin'. I dun graziated frum the six'd grade and it only taked me 12 years to do it.

Now THAT'S slaughtering the Queen's English...

[Kernos]

Reminds me of the time I spell checked one of Philip's essays back in the early years before putting it on the web with the Dreamweaver spell checker and changed everything from Brit to Am spellings.

His reply when I asked him to proof the page was comical. This taught me to add British English dictionaries to all of my apps...

[Donata]

I find it interesting that a Druid board speller considers 'Awen' a misspelled word!

Donata

[Kernos]

I find it interesting that a Druid board speller considers 'Awen' a misspelled word!

Donata

The board does not have a spell checker, so this is your own spell checker the says 'awen' is misspelt. If you add it to your own spell checker dictionary, it is no longer mispelled.

[John T. Folden]

Perhaps the title to this thread could modified to clarify that it's not a message board feature/issue?

[Selene]

Good idea, John. Thanks for the suggestion.

Lorraine, I've added an editorial remark to (I hope) avoid confusion.

Blessings,
Selene

[Lorraine]

I've edited my first post too.