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  • #31
    Originally posted by Hilary B View Post
    I won't use any auto-correcting spell checker. Sometimes I WANT to type words it doesn't know!
    Me too but I have children who think it's funny to keep turning it back on...won't let Microsoft limit my vocabulary or force American spelling on me (so there Bill Gates!)

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    • #32
      I always turn it off too - if I have a mental block, I just look THE word up! Incidentally, you can change THE 'English US' setting to THE 'English UK' I've just had to do it after re-installing everything on my new hard drive.
      Last edited by Glutton4...; 13-05-2009, 09:39 AM. Reason: Edited to add capitals to annoy Wayne!
      All the best - Glutton 4 Punishment
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      • #33
        I proof-read survey reports (OH types his own, so I get to proofread) and I like having Word set to highlight what it thinks are errors, but let me decide what to do about them. Sometimes it is obvious he has been 'autocorrected', when a word doesn't make sense (or, more often, simply isn't a word he would use in a report) but isn't highlighted as a spelling error. I'm glad we don't have to share a computer!
        Flowers come in too many colours to see the world in black-and-white.

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        • #34
          Originally posted by Hilary B View Post
          I proof-read survey reports (OH types his own, so I get to proofread) and I like having Word set to highlight what it thinks are errors, but let me decide what to do about them. Sometimes it is obvious he has been 'autocorrected', when a word doesn't make sense (or, more often, simply isn't a word he would use in a report) but isn't highlighted as a spelling error. I'm glad we don't have to share a computer!
          You should have a go at proof-reading text that has been translated from German to English, that's really interesting. Germish as I like to refer to it. Spellcheker is completely useless in that instance.
          A simple dude trying to grow veg. http://haywayne.blogspot.com/

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          • #35
            Speel chick can be quite yooseful in meye job, but we use DNA sequences quite often, which can be interesting. This is an epic grammar fail from MS Office, so funny I saved it...

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            • #36
              Pas de "le/la"? C'est facile - ecrit en francais!
              Tour of my back garden mini-orchard.

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              • #37
                Originally posted by StephenH View Post
                Pas de "le/la"? C'est facile - ecrit en francais!
                ?Pardon? Je nais comprend pas!
                A simple dude trying to grow veg. http://haywayne.blogspot.com/

                BLOG UPDATED! http://haywayne.blogspot.com/2012/01...ar-demand.html 30/01/2012

                Practise makes us a little better, it doesn't make us perfect.


                What would Vedder do?

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                • #38
                  Originally posted by HeyWayne View Post
                  ?Pardon? Je nais comprend pas!
                  Leave the trypos aloon?
                  The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years.
                  Brian Clough

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                  • #39
                    Consider printer ink, biro ink and especially time saved by not using definite article - shorter letters, shorter speech - does anyone have stats? time saved in week, month, year? Can someone work it out?

                    Meantime I'll put feet up and have cup of tea.

                    Just read above and feel pretty silly 'cause it reads pretty silly.

                    Will get coat...
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                    • #40
                      Just discovered another word - becasue.
                      A simple dude trying to grow veg. http://haywayne.blogspot.com/

                      BLOG UPDATED! http://haywayne.blogspot.com/2012/01...ar-demand.html 30/01/2012

                      Practise makes us a little better, it doesn't make us perfect.


                      What would Vedder do?

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                      • #41
                        aarppenlty hnuamn mnids fgirue wrods eevn wehn seplled wonrg jsut hvae frsit & lsat ltteres rghit
                        Iamhanuman

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                        • #42
                          Originally posted by HeyWayne View Post
                          Just discovered another word - becasue.
                          That gets me every time Wayne! Becasue I know how to spell it but my fingers don't!
                          Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.

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                          • #43
                            Originally posted by Flummery View Post
                            That gets me every time Wayne! Becasue I know how to spell it but my fingers don't!
                            Exactly my problem ma - I blame it on the fact that my fingers are so far away from my head. My nerves play Chinese whispers with the words my head sends down.
                            A simple dude trying to grow veg. http://haywayne.blogspot.com/

                            BLOG UPDATED! http://haywayne.blogspot.com/2012/01...ar-demand.html 30/01/2012

                            Practise makes us a little better, it doesn't make us perfect.


                            What would Vedder do?

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                            • #44
                              Eye have a spelling chequer,
                              It came with my pea sea,
                              It plainly marques four my revue
                              Miss takes eye can knot sea.

                              Eye strike the quays and type a
                              Word and weight four it two say,
                              Weather I am rite oar wrong, it
                              Shows me strait aweigh.

                              As soon as a mist ache is maid it
                              Nose bee four two long.
                              And eye can put the error rite –
                              It’s rare lea ever wrong.

                              I’ve run this poem threw it,
                              Eye am shore yore pleas two no,
                              It’s letter perfect in its weigh,
                              My chequer told me sew.


                              (Don't know who wrote this but came across it many years ago.)
                              Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it.

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                              • #45
                                I dunt no wot teh porblem is, becuse I cn spel perfickly, so terhe! On a slightly mroe serious note, watch this space.......

                                Zebedee
                                "Raised to a state of heavenly lunacy where I just can't be touched!"

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