How's your spelling?

[munruben]

Sometimes I find that I haven't had my fingers on the home keys of the keyboard. You know, index fingers on the "F" and "J" keys and when I look at the monitor after touch typing for a bit, its a load of jumbled up garbage.

[boban]

Everyone makes mistakes. The difference for some (like those in my horrible profession) is that you must proof read everything, or you will look like a dill at some stage. My first lesson was that:

"Dictate every letter as if if were going to be an annexure to an affidavit".

or put simply, like it was going to be read by a judge and others.

When Im on here though, I dont give a rats. I dont proof read as this is not meant to be work. If I get it wrong, then so what. Im in good company.

[munruben]

Everyone makes mistakes. The difference for some (like those in my horrible profession) is that you must proof read everything, or you will look like a dill at some stage. My first lesson was that:

"Dictate every letter as if if were going to be an annexure to an affidavit".

or put simply, like it was going to be read by a judge and others.

When Im on here though, I dont give a rats. I dont proof read as this is not meant to be work. If I get it wrong, then so what. Im in good company.

It must be very difficult under those circumstances.
It makes you think though, the typists of yesteryear ,must have been hard for them not having the luxury of the "backspace" key or the "Delete" key.

[silentC]

My first lesson was that:

"Dictate every letter as if if were going to be an annexure to an affidavit".

When Im on here though, I dont give a rats.

Intentional or not, that's funny

[Christopha]

Where, oh where, is Shane when a subject which is right up his alley rears its' pedantic head?

[silentC]

There's no apostrophe in "its" and you put it in the wrong place anyway

[ss_11000]

http://www.badspelling.com/

simple couple of tests for you guys ^^

[K_S]

John

I don't make spelling mistakes -

I'm trying to change the English language to my standard instead.

Decided unanimously by a committee of one

[Christopha]

There's no apostrophe in "its" and you put it in the wrong place anyway

Was when I went to school, we had to practice carving apostrophes into our stone tablets....
It's a pain when a spelling or grammatical problem rears its' head.

[chrisp]

Have a look at WordWeb (http://wordweb.info/). I find it a fantastic program for quickly checking the spelling, and usage, of words. There is a free version that seems to just about cover all the words I've used, and for the occasional time it doesn't have the word in its dictionary, there is links to Wikipedia and Wiktionary.

It dose not pick up those annoying transpositions, though

[Groggy]

Ah, spelling...

I use a program called wordgenius, which is a ripper. www.wordgenius.com

It has the Macquarie dictionary in it plus a thesaurus. I have an icon on the desktop that I can drag a word onto and it gives me this type of thing:

algorism
/'alguhrizuhm/.
noun
1. the Arabic system of arithmetical notation (with the figures 1, 2, 3, etc.).
2. the art of computation with the Arabic figures, one to nine, plus the zero; arithmetic.
3. Refer to algorithm.
[Middle English algorisme, from Old French, from Medieval Latin algorismus, from Arabic al Khwarizmi the native of Khwarizm Khiva (i.e. Abu Ja'far Mohammed ibn Musa, 9th-century Arab mathematician, author of a famous treatise on algebra translated into Medieval Latin)]

The program also provides the Macquarie to MSWord and the other office programs.

[wheelinround]

Using MS Word for spell checking is ok IF you have set it up to Spell English Australian. Otherwise words like Colour = color, there are many others can't recall them. Just thought of one Aluminuim = Aluminum

Me in 3rd class was when I first leaned I had dyslexia writting a composition on "What I did on Holiday" after writting it out 5 times I still got Boy and Dog as Doy & Bog.

I topped 6th class in a spelling B but that wasn't writing it.

I am no touch typist if i dont watch were my fat fingers go I end up hiting wrong keys, or my mind races ahead and I type letters making things ass about.

I have been a technical writer, and writer of tours and always checked my spelling.
The boss whom I was writing tours for borught in a Proof reader from UNI who I had to pend (see missed a key) spend a day going over her work as none of it made sense.

[woodbe]

There's no apostrophe in "its" and you put it in the wrong place anyway

Well, that depends.

As I understand it, the apostrophe is inserted to denote shortening of a word after concatenation (it is -> it's), or possession. In this case, I think we are dealing with posession, so shouldn't it be it's as in "[the subject] rears it's pedantic head" (the subject's pedantic head)?

woodbe.

[woodbe]

Just a ps.

My better half tells me that punctuation is being generally chucked out because it gets so complicated that most users of the English language apply it incorrectly. So maybe SilentC is right anyhow

woodbe

[echnidna]

(like those in my horrible profession)

Its time you looked after the inner man and considered another occupation.

You only live once so don't stuff yourself doing something you have come to dislike.