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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-05 02:32 PM
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Anyone else here ever use a DU posting window JUST for the spell-checker?
I have to admit I do that.

I don't have MS-Word installed on this computer, and sometimes I click the "post" button just to use DU's spell-checker.

The most embarrassing part?

Sometimes I find I actually needed it.

Am I alone in this?
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-05 02:33 PM
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1. yup, all alone LOL
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tk2kewl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-05 02:34 PM
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2. Of course. It's a lot faster than opening Word.
;)
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-05 02:34 PM
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3. Only for posts, but I do use it on pretty much every post, screw that damn
proofreading stuff! :P
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McKenzie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-05 02:36 PM
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4. no because it's £$£%$&^ American English!
humour, colour, neighbour etc NOT humor, color, neighbor ...rant rave rave rant
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FuzzySlippers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-05 02:57 PM
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6. We're just more economical.
No reason to overwork that poor u.
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McKenzie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-05 03:08 PM
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7. why not just admit
that you bastardised our language? Superior smirk.

Gotta go to the shop right now. brb for more fun and banter soon.
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FuzzySlippers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-05 03:44 PM
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8. Bastardized your language?
Why can't you just admit we perfected it?

Moreover, what's up with the overuse of s, e.g. bastardise, criticise, empathise etc.? It's a zee sound for Gawd's sake! Use a freakin' z!
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McKenzie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-05 03:54 PM
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9. I have just returned from the shop to find
incorrect spelling.

This might help you to understand correct English useage Ms FS. Useage as in shmoozlage. So there!

"My Lord, I do here, in the name of all the learned and polite persons of the nation, complain to Your Lordship as First Minister, that our Language is extremely imperfect; that its daily improvements are by no means in proportion to its daily corruptions; that the pretenders so polish and refine it have chiefly multiplied abuses and absurdities: and that in many instances it offends against every part of grammar." —SWIFT


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FuzzySlippers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-14-05 03:18 AM
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15. I sure hope you picked up an American dictionary
at the shop so you can start spelling properly.
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IntravenousDemilo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-05 03:57 PM
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10. A 'zee' sound?
Surely you mean a 'zed' sound.
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FuzzySlippers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-05 04:27 PM
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12. I see you're in Toronto, Mr. Smartypants.
All of you Commonwealth types are ganging up on me.
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NYC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-05 02:38 PM
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5. That's a clever idea.
I'll use it if I need it.

(I don't even use spell check for my DU posts. Oh, well.)
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Mr.Green93 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-05 04:05 PM
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11. Try ieSpell
www.iespell.com/
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-05 06:21 PM
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13. That looks great!
I'm going to check it out.

Thanks!
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Mr.Green93 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-05 07:48 PM
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14. Careful
it's addictive.
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