Sunday, June 20, 2010

1184 - spellin'

Happy father's day me. And all those other appropriately designated persons out there.

I'm always spell checking when posting AND commenting. And it always doesn't work. I.e. if I'm clueless about the word (is clueless two words or one?) it will get by me or I may just overlook a misspelling several times.

So I usually went to Dictionary.com to check. But it takes forever for Dictionary,com to come up. And you get pop up ads along with it now. So what's the new solution? (Besides going to compose mode and doing spell check.) Just google the word. If you've misspelled it, it will ask you, 'are you sure you meant .... ?'

I'll still probably use dictionary.com for word origins, but google gets the job done 10 times faster for spelling. And blogger spell check found 4 errors just in this short little diddy. I really wish comments had spell check.

 

6 comments:

The Mistress of the Dark said...

I'm a notoriously bad speller. Happy Father's Day :P

Mike said...

M - Thanks. Did you spell check that third word?

Gilahi said...

Um... what about just using a real dictionary? You know, like a book or something?

Mike said...

G - The problem with a book is you have to know how to spell the word to look it up to see how it's spelled.

Amanda said...

Happy Belated Father's Day....

I completely missed Father's Day ... in Australia its in September. But, it looks like in Malaysia...and in the US, it was on Sunday.

Mike said...

A - Maybe I'll celebrate Ausie father's day too!

Wv: pectere - measurement of the area of a guys chest.