Using your Spell Checker

[Donna D.]

Can't beat computers for spell checking Okay, so the spelling is correct...it's the grammar

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

[Jackie]

Hey - donut pick on us grammers....are eyes our old and it's hard two sea......

[Darwin Maring]

Here is a little known fact about spell checkers and dictionaries, Gullible is not in either one.

[Donna D.]

Here is a little known fact about spell checkers and dictionaries, Gullible is not in either one.

Gullible - easy to fool. I had to check it out Microsoft Word Office Professional Version 2003 NOW has it

[Byron Kinnaman]

Here is a little known fact about spell checkers and dictionaries, Gullible is not in either one.

From Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary...


gullible
One entry found for gullible.
Main Entry: gull·ible
Variant(s): also gull·able /'g&-l&-b&l/
Function: adjective
: easily duped or cheated
- gull·ibil·i·ty /"g&-l&-'bi-l&-tE/ noun
- gull·ibly /'g&-l&-blE/ adverb

[Mary F]

Here is a little known fact about spell checkers and dictionaries, Gullible is not in either one.

Got 'em, Darwin!

[CharlynnT]

good one, donna!

Most spell-chequers due knot speak Canadian, eh, sew we due knot bother using 'em!

[Darwin Maring]

Yes Mary and thanks for the reply.

That's a really good one to have fun with.

[Denis C]

A?

oops spell check on line one

Eh?

[Gina D.]

Darwin wins.

[Suz]

Back in the olden days, in a land far, far away ... Oh, sorry. I got carried away.

Not too long after the forum began, the subject of adding a spell checker kept coming up. After discussing its pro's and con's ad nauseum, I came up with the following (glad to know that someone else agrees with me).

Shell Speck
Me end Webster's use to bee good partners until we had a pardon of the waves. You sea, the problem isn't that I don't know how to spell nor it is that I don't half good grammar. The problem is that my hands and brain don't always coordinate.

I no the difference between accept/except, there/their/they're, who/whom, know/no, etc. So spelling and grammar are not the problem. It's just that sometimes I get in a hurry and the fingers snag the first one out of my brain. The shell speck on most computers just isn't smart enough to figure it out.

Another reason that I don't like them: It NEVER likes my made up words.

And lastly, if a spell check is available, then I really look like a dork when I miss something!

By the way, I ran this through my spell checker, and it thought it was swell!

So for me, I'm glad we do not have a shell speck on this forum!

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