spell check

[joko]

can we have one please? drives me mad checking my own posts and reading all the illiterate ones

[jacko50]

oi!it taint me fault im illiterit blame the labur governmet wen i was at scool in 1956 to 1965 ya twonk.

[maggie01]

I put a spell check on my computer. Every time I remember to use it, it says it ok. When I forget to use it, after I have submitted my question or reply, then I see the spelling mistakes. I can spell really!

[THECORBYLOON]

jacko the Tories were in power while you were at school (until 64 anyway.)

[jacko50]

cheers tlc see i can't even get that right.

[woofgang]

Awful warning about spell checkers!!

I have a friend who is a bit short sighted and not totally computer literate. She was interviewing a gentleman and part of the interview involves having the client read off the paper. he appeared to be having trouble so she suggested thst he might need reading glasses. When she wrote the report, she spellchecked it and accepted all the changes without thinking. When she presented her report, it read that she had suggested that the gentleman needed reading classes!!

[smudge]

Nice one woofgang!

joko - perhaps you could ask Father Christmas for a Franklin Wordmaster & keep it on your desk.

[AB Editor]

Hi All,

A spell check? Didn't you know spelling mistakes are what keeps the otherwise mighty ABer humble?

Good suggestion though - thank you.

AB ED

[smudge]

Another nice one Ed!

[joko]

what's one of them smudge??

I am quite a good speller, its just tedious having to scour everything over to double check - I hate making mistakes

It is more some of the other gibberish posts I try to decipher that irritate me - having said that...I'm not THAT bothered, just thought it would be a good idea in general.

can u imajin orl da red wiggly lynes i wud av 4 ritin like dis? alot i rekun. LOL

[smudge]

Here you are joko - although mine's a an ancient black Franklin Wordmaster, they now call it a:

Franklin-Spell-Checker

[smudge]

Actually joko - I've just had another search & although the following one is made by Collins, it is much more advanced & has features similar to mine:

Here

[smudge]

If it shows more than one, it's the Collins Dictionary & Thesaurus Pocket Edition - DMQ118N - Approx �24.99 in the shops.

[joko]

Thanks smudge but its not that I need help to spell - just that i'd like it to point out my typos for me, so i don't have to closely reread every word to check i've not made a typo - I rarely need help with actual spelling.

When i do need help i type the word in to msword and use the spell checker there.

if there was a spell checker on here, others - who do have problems with spelling - would be more inclined to correct before sending. it would even perhaps help them to become better spellers generally.

I don't mind a few typos but when they look like they have been written by a 6 year old, or in the style of a text message its hard work sometimes

Thanks for your help though - i may get one of those things for my friend - she's a hopeless speller!

[smudge]

That's okay joko - the info' might help someone else though!

Like you, I don't have many problems with spelling (was always top of the class in that - useless at Science though), unless I'm rushing & it's a slip of the finger.

I love my WordMaster for crosswords & puzzles though.

[jno]

I may have posted this one before:

Ode to the Spell Checker:

Eye have 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 spell chequer tolled me sew.

[smudge]

Haven't read that before jno - I've saved it to my doc's though, it might help some poor sole later!

[joko]

I like that jno, did you write it??

I thought of a few more homophones for it -

quay - for key

mi - for me

yore - for your (though I know your should have been you're)

pleas - for pleased

i tried them all and the spell check accepts them!

i do like these kind of things !

[jno]

no, not my own joko. Nice, though.